VirginiaMcCaskey t1_jacjc7o wrote
Reply to comment by Couple_Overall in Ukraine war: Zelensky says situation in Bakhmut worsening by jacobhong
The NATO narrative has always been nonsense. Former Soviet bloc countries have joined NATO solely because they cannot trust Russia to respect their sovereignty.
What better way to convince them that they were right than violating the sovereignty of a neighbor and invading them?
Fwiw - Russia has engaged in violent expansion during Putin's regime, and most analysts agree that reclaiming the glory of the Soviet Union/Russian Empire is a part of his agenda. Of course you can't divorce that from maintaining control, but war is also a terrible way to do that.
Couple_Overall t1_jadqnlf wrote
>Fwiw - Russia
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>engaged in violent expansion during Putin's regime, and most analysts agree that reclaiming the glory of the Soviet Union/Russian Empire is a part of his agenda
Evidence does not support it though. Always ask yourself "why now?". What's different in February 2022 than one, two, three or 12 months before?
If that was the Russian goal, then Russia had an infinite amount of opportunities before February 2022. Entirety of Ukraine was free to grab for Russia in 2014 or in the following years, he didn't move.
If he had it planned before he would've ordered the army to get prepared to such an occurrence. But that didn't happen and Russian army itself was not prepared and informed about these plans.
The reason why it happened then was prompted by Kazakhstan protests, Putin merely waited the olympics to end as a favor to China.
Putin's goal (which he never hid by the way), was first and foremost beheading the Ukrainian leadership and placing a puppet regime there which is why the attack spearheaded and concentrated on Kiev, land grabbing was of second importance.
SomeBoxofSpoons t1_jad7asb wrote
It would probably be a bit easier to believe it if Putin hadn’t been transparently drooling over Ukraine for more than a decade.
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