> This I just can not understand. Russian propaganda works hard to make people equate "Ukraine in Nato = NATO tanks on RU border, NATO nuclear weapons in Ukrai

> This I just can not understand. Russian propaganda works hard to make people equate "Ukraine in Nato = NATO tanks on RU border, NATO nuclear weapons in Ukraine" which we've both agreed is false. I agree that NATO weapons on the RU border are a threat to Russia, but then they're already in the Baltic countries, so how would Ukraine be different ? All this points to a good old "might makes right" spheres of influence competition.