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Infosperber is an independent Swiss online news platform where I can read about strange things (in German). To be clear, I don't know whether the things they te

Infosperber is an independent Swiss online news platform where I can read about strange things (in German). To be clear, I don't know whether the things they tell are true, but often I find these things interesting and plausible. One of them is that Gorbachev has been promised that the NATO doesn't expand in Eastern Europe. So perhaps this is one of the causes Putin invaded Ukraine. He is afraid of the NATO and deems the EU and the USA untrustworthy partners. I don't know. Seems plausible. https://www.infosperber.ch/politik/darum-fordert-russland-den-stop-der-nato-osterweiterung/ https://www.infosperber.ch/politik/darum-fordert-russland-de... Edit: This doesn't exculpate the invasion. An invasion of a country is a violation of international law. I just try to understand the rationales.

lalaland1125 5y ago
> He is afraid of the NATO and deems the EU and the USA untrustworthy partners. Think about this a bit more and you will realize that this explanation makes less than zero sense. NATO members in the Baltics have bordered Russia for almost two decades with zero sign of interest in invading Russia. Even right now, in the aftermath of Russia performing imperialist conquest not seen since WW2, there is zero interest in military intervention against Russia. Stable democracies are simply not going to go to war with a nuclear power.
- _nalply 5y ago
  https://therealnews.com/putin-has-launched-the-most-senseless-of-all-the-wars https://therealnews.com/putin-has-launched-the-most-senseles... > The conquest of Russia by NATO, by contrast, is the personal fear [...] It doesn't matter what people do, it matters what people think what people do.