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Russia used to be more on the fence about NATO too when it acted defensively - before Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. The war crimes committed during the NATO Lib
by pydry 4y ago
Russia used to be more on the fence about NATO too when it acted defensively - before Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
The war crimes committed during the NATO Libyan intervention - with a deliberate emphasis on regime change and creating a failed state - sparked the same fear in Russia that the Ukraine invasion sparked in Finland.
Russia already went through a period of internal collapse and being ruled by an American puppet, too, so the feeling that "they could make it happen again" is pretty visceral.
- blub 4y agoAfaik the NATO mission in Yugoslavia and Libya were the two big ones. Both misused NATO and were not defensive in nature.
- asdajksah2123 4y agoAnd none of them were targeted against Russia. For the obvious reason that NATO countries are largely rich, peaceful, and doing pretty ok and are not gonna waste their time and energy attacking a nation with f'ing nuclear weapons.
- pydry 4y agoOh it was. If you thought it was coincidence that they were both Russian allies you'd be utterly wrong. You're right that NATO definitely isnt interested in committing to a full scale ground invasion of Russia. Similarly the British were never interested in committing to a full scale invasion of India. Therefore they were... never a threat?