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Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and to join NATO, it needs the confirmation of 30 countries. Because Russia has strong ties to many of the countries in NATO,

Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and to join NATO, it needs the confirmation of 30 countries. Because Russia has strong ties to many of the countries in NATO, NATO is not likely to confirm Ukraine membership. Putting a powerful alliance on your borders, and moving missiles close to your borders is a casus belli We Americans have moved to blockade Cuba (but calling it a quarantine to be PC) when the Russians did the same with Cuba. [1] > This did not age well. They are not seeking to destroy Ukraine, only to capture it. This is not a repeat of the Nazi's capture of Ukraine in which much of the cities were destroyed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

Paradigma11 5y ago
How can it be a casus belli when russia signed multiple treaties explicitely allowing ukraine free choice of military alliance. The cuba missile crisis was pretty bonkers from the US side. We were lucky that there were more level headed people on the sowjet side. Yes, you are right that ukraine acceptance into NATO was not going to happen soon, most likely many decades away. Nobody would allow a country in that has open territorial conflicts with russia. Putin wants to annex belarus and ukraine, all other words out of his mouth are just tactical blabla.