[pydry]

Attempting to expand NATO to Russia's doorstep has proven pretty damaging it seems.

According to the February predictions the Russian economy should also have imploded by now. It now looks equally likely that the European economy will crater first.

[Cryptonic]

NATO should have expanded to Ukraine long ago then we would not see this bullshit now.

Don't spread FUD about the European enonomy, it will be fine.

The actual mistake was that we should have backed away from fossil energy technology long ago. Our governments and people knew it for like 30 years. Only disinformation about "loosing our wealth" and lobbying made fossil energy survive. But now thanks to Putin there will be a change. Now we are in fear of "loosing our wealth" because we went on and on with old fossil energy. - Now that this is clear for everybody, there is nothing that will stop the full potential of fossil free energy. Plus maybe we will finally get rid of eating meat on the long run.

[pydry]

The NATO gang was busy waging wars of aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to bother much with threatening Russia from Ukraine's border. Besides, Russian relations with the west were relatively cordial until Hillary/NATO destroyed Libya.

As with Georgia the intent was to put the country on a 1-2 decade long path to article 5 protections (PFP) where NATO could gradually ramp up its ability to militarily threaten Russia but was under no obligation to actually defend against Russian aggression.