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They are upset more with Finland because of proximity. But Belarus is the buffer country in that region. If it looked like they were going to join NATO they w
by ipaddr 2y ago
They are upset more with Finland because of proximity. But Belarus is the buffer country in that region. If it looked like they were going to join NATO they would invade. Ukraine is a buffer country.
- jiggawatts 2y agoFinland has a 1,340km border with Russia, and the closest part of Belarus to Finland is 462km away. So again, why did Russia not invade Finland to stop Finnish membership in NATO? Russia claims this is their casus belli for their invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and tankies accept this at face value. They also claim that Ukraine deserved to be invaded because they were mis-treating ethnic Russians. Okay, but Ukraine's treatment of ethnic Hungarians near the Hungarian border was virtually identical. So... does Hungary have casus belli to invade Ukraine? Or if Putin takes all of Ukraine as per his stated goal of "returning" Ukrainian land to Russia "where it belongs", does he also plan on returning the currently Ukranian land back to Hungary that it lost? If not, why not? https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-admits-ukraine-invasion-is-an-imperial-war-to-return-russian-land/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-adm...