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For Russia, Ukraine joining NATO is like the USSR putting nukes in CUBA for the U.S.
by sillywalk 3y ago
For Russia, Ukraine joining NATO is like the USSR putting nukes in CUBA for the U.S.
- mupuff1234 3y agoThis just in - the USSR doesn't exist anymore. Russians might think they are still the Russian bear, but that's long gone now, the world sees them as an annoying mosquito at most.
- _kbh_ 3y agoI think the issue is that Russia cannot have another go at invading Ukraine if this one fails if they are in NATO. So Russia stamps its feet to try and meet its imperial goals by dissuading the west from allowing Ukraine into NATO then it can reconstitute its army and have another go. That’s not possible if Ukraine is in NATO. Which is why Russia screams about NATO expansion and non existent promises for NATO not to expand. Because it’s very bad for their future ambitions of conquering a bunch of post soviet states in Eastern Europe.
- n4r9 3y agoThe delicious irony being that now Finland has joined, Sweden will join soon, and Ukraine will join much sooner than it otherwise would have.