| "You're assuming that Russia would feel like it needed to conquer its neighbors in a peaceful world." ? Yes, Putin has been trying that for 20 years. Putin + Kremlin believe that Ukraine is 'not a country' and is a 'vassal of Russia'. Straight up. They have been actively doing things to support this for a very long time. See: Yanukovich, the laughably clown dirtbag who is the Belarus/Lukashenko analogue. Here is a good articulation of the Geostrategic and Historical Russian Nationalism: (Article was put up by accident in Russia but taken down) https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20... here is the English translation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z7zQiS-99mhqmJqJ-r-a2MJc... This is not about 'defence and NATO'. |