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Well, the EU has a Russian military base at its border, and did not escalate any war because of that?
by michpoch 2y ago
Well, the EU has a Russian military base at its border, and did not escalate any war because of that?
- sras-me 2y agoI don't know, may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat. Or may be NATO have some other ways of dealing with this threat.
- CamperBob2 2y agoI don't know, may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat. That's certainly true now, even if it wasn't true before. So why would Putin act in a way that was absolutely guaranteed -- win, lose or draw -- to fortify and entrench NATO's presence on Russia's borders? His NATO excuse never made any sense. Don't invade anybody, and you have nothing to fear from NATO.
- sras-me 2y ago>His NATO excuse never made any sense. Don't invade anybody, and you have nothing to fear from NATO. May be he is/was worried about USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkl2XgZlw0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkl2XgZlw0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU
- michpoch 2y ago> may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat Or maybe Russia see eastern and central Europe as their sphere of influence, which they lost. And now they're using any excuse to try to re-establish that. What kind of NATO danger did they expect from Georgia? Russia had zero reason to see de-militarised Europe as a threat.