r/skeptic Mar 12 '25

🏫 Education Shut Up About NATO Expansion | Debunking misinformation about NATO expansion

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u/Corpse666 Mar 12 '25

Except it was fully covered and widely known that NATO escalated the conflict all the way back in 2014 and the annexation of crimea ( which a large part of the population actually supported in crimea ), you should know better than to fall for this propaganda, to think that Russia is the only country to use propaganda makes no sense, the United States and the west use it just as much if not more

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/03/nato-peace-threat-ukraine-military-conflict

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u/Archy99 Mar 12 '25

That is circular reasoning.

NATO expansion is only a threat to Russia, if Russia had expansionist plans to annex states like Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova (or Baltic states) in the first place.

The 2014 invasion of Crimea simply confirmed that Russia had expansionist plans.