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>It's long been understood that extending NATO up to Russia's borders would trigger a response There's already a bunch of NATO countries bordering Russia in Eu
by Hamuko 5y ago
>It's long been understood that extending NATO up to Russia's borders would trigger a response
There's already a bunch of NATO countries bordering Russia in Europe. Maybe not to such a large extent that Finland would be, but there definitely is.
- lambdasquirrel 5y agoWhich is partly why Russia has been belligerent. The Swedes and Finns have an arrangement dating back to the Cold War. Estonia, et. al were admitted after it seemed the order had changed. But given how things turned out after the end of the Cold War, it makes it look all the more complicated in hindsight.