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The NATO Expansion line has been disproven to death. Putin sees the fall of the USSR as a historical wrong that must be righted. He uses NATO Expansion as an e
by philjohn 2y ago
The NATO Expansion line has been disproven to death.
Putin sees the fall of the USSR as a historical wrong that must be righted. He uses NATO Expansion as an easy excuse to sell to the rubes, but it's just that, an excuse.
He was going to go after Ukraine and Georgia NATO or not.
- pydry 2y agoIt hasnt been disproven even once. The usual attempts to do so deny geopolitical realities (e.g. assuming the Finland-Russia border is as vulnerable as the Ukraine border). Georgia was, obviously, left alone after it dropped its NATO ambitions, disproving the rather quaint theory that Putin is intent on reforming the USSR.
- philjohn 2y agoExcuse me? Are you claiming that occupying 20% of Georgia's land mass is "leaving them alone"?
- pydry 2y agoAbkhazia and South Ossetia are to Georgia what Kosovo is to Serbia. Serbia did not get Kosovo back did it?
- ImPostingOnHN 2y agoDoes russia support Chechnyan independence?
- pydry 2y agoObviously not. Neither do we (officially). Unofficially we do.
- ImPostingOnHN 2y agoI don't know who "we" refers to here, but consider that Abkhazia and South Ossetia are to Georgia what Chechnya is to russia
- pydry 2y agoAnd what Kosovo is to Serbia. If you wish to grandstand on this issue you must condemn the war against Serbia also.
- ImPostingOnHN 2y agoAnd what Kalingrad is to Poland, and what Transnistria is to Moldova, and what Abkhazia and South Ossetia are to Georgia, and what Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea are to Ukraine. If you wish to understand this issue, you must condemn the russian invasions and annexations in Poland, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, and many others.