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by mike_k
1406 days ago
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It sounds like it is possible to justify the invasion, if you have a good enough story... It is still not clear if the threat was real or imagined, I'd the "deescalation" proposition had real things or was just a very unrealistic set of terms and essentially an excuse to proceed.
NATO was less ready to accept any new members half a year ago than it is now. |
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That's probably the case for many of the nordics but not Ukraine.
In 2021 NATO declared verbatim that Ukraine would become part of NATO and its process would proceed. Now it is on hold because NATO doesn't admit Nations with active conflicts and territorial disputes.
Of course russia doesnt get a formal vote in who NATO admits, but they have a de facto vote via the invasion. The US and NATO are scaling back military exercises in the Black Sea this year[1], which historically threatened Russia.
https://gcaptain.com/us-navy-ships-stay-home-nato-flexes-bla...