[fuoqi]

Brzezinski would disagree with you.

Not even touching the political aspect (Ukrainian nationalism being clearly anti-Russian long before 2014), for the Russian military having well established NATO military bases in Ukraine and Georgia is many times worse than for US to have Russian bases in Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America (and you should remember how US reacted to the possibility of those). And no, the Russian military can not responsibly believe in "defensiveness" of NATO for a number of good reasons.

The invasion itself is clearly a bad and desperate move, but it comes after all the previous moves (from trying to be friends with NATO during the pre-Munich years and keeping Ukraine on the hook using the Minsk agreements) were exhausted and it has piled on top of the utter failure of Russian policy on the Ukrainian front since 91 (targeting oligarchs instead of population).

[ikrenji]

Russias security is guaranteed by its nuclear weapons. Having one or a dozen NATO bases on its border doesn't alter this basic fact...

[rhn_mk1]

Do you have more reading from Brzezinski on this topic?

[ksidudwbw]

Who is it worse for? Putin or the russian people...