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If Ukraine becomes a NATO member, Russia won’t be able to defend it’s border from a conventional attack. By looking at a map, this is quite evident.
by fosk 5y ago
If Ukraine becomes a NATO member, Russia won’t be able to defend it’s border from a conventional attack.
By looking at a map, this is quite evident.
- outworlder 5y agoWhat's Ukraine bringing to the table that's not already accomplished by the multiple NATO members already bordering them?
- cutemonster 5y agoNot much? Nothing? I think Putin talks about NATO to mislead people, and although the logic is a bit dumb, unfortunately some people believe him
- ciphol 5y agoIt puts much more of central and southern Russia in missile/flight range of NATO.
- pc2g4d 5y agoIf Ukraine is annexed by Russia, the defense of the Baltics becomes much more difficult, as Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania then become susceptible to Russian attack. (Moldova too but they're not in NATO) In the graph of adjacent nations, Ukraine has a high betweenness centrality https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ranking-of-centrality-values-for-countries-Measures-of-centrality-Weighted-degree_tbl1_305371341/download https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ranking-of-centrality-va...
- dekhn 5y ago+1 for the use of betweenness centrality
- selimthegrim 5y agoSadly I don't think the Russians are going to need metadata to catch Ukrainian Paul Revere.
- jopsen 5y agoRussia is a tiny economy compared to NATO. With modern logistics, I don't buy the geographic argument. To be this is just Putin playing cards the rest of the civilized world have decided you can't play.
- eru 5y agoRussia's economy is smaller than even Italy's.
- cutemonster 5y agoPutin wouldn't be rational if he thought NATO would attack. He would instead be dumb. The things about NATO is what he says to mislead people -- and maybe that is a rational step in his restore-the-Soviet-Union dreams
- hugh-avherald 5y agoThe Baltic states already border Russia.
- eru 5y agoIf Ukraine becomes Russian, then Russia will border NATO members, too. (Because Ukraine borders NATO members.)