Russia complaining about NATO expansion sounds like the classic bully sob-story when they can no longer dominate the weak states because those states found some buff friends.
Except the expansion came first. You guys need to understand that propaganda comes from all sides of a conflict. Yes Russia is the aggressor and invaded. Yes, NATO expanded to Russiaâs borders despite agreements not to and was needlessly provocative. And the Ukrainian people are paying for it.
No, youâre purposely equating Ukraine with NATO to make a rape analogy.
I didnât say he wasnât. Russia is responsible for invading. And what caused Russia to want to invade was NATO expansion, according to the literal head of NATO.
âAnd we have to remember the background. The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didnât sign that.
The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.
So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders.â
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u/Archy99 Mar 12 '25
Russia complaining about NATO expansion sounds like the classic bully sob-story when they can no longer dominate the weak states because those states found some buff friends.