3 ms·
>Cornered from seizing crimea in 2014 and creating/supporting two Donbas breakaway regions? This is not how it was seen by Russian conservatives like Putin. Th
by ivan_gammel 3y ago
>Cornered from seizing crimea in 2014 and creating/supporting two Donbas breakaway regions?
This is not how it was seen by Russian conservatives like Putin. The threat of NATO in Ukraine was not eliminated by those actions.
- Pigalowda 3y agoThey saw it incorrectly then. This has been one of the most tremendous unforced errors in Russian history. Now everyone realizes that they are a weak successor state who has completely squandered their military inheritance from the USSR. Russian conservatives may not realize it, which is fine, as they are willing to rapidly expend away their soviet inventory. Their modern weak economy can’t afford to rearm. They have eliminated themselves from the great game. Not only did they fail to stop NATO - it expanded and added 1,340 km of direct border contact.
- ivan_gammel 3y agoNo, they saw it correctly — in a world where Russia could not join NATO (Putin claims he was rejected), the threat was persistent and something had to be done with it. The biggest mistake of Putin was to rely on fake intelligence data and fake army to start the war, showing that he had only the visibility of control in recent years which was carefully created by puppet media and his own administration. A dictator in control would plan a war, not a takeover. A democratic leader would just apply for NATO and EU membership according to the procedure and work hard on improving the relationships with neighbors.