Apologies to Australians from a Russian background, page-5

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    Not quite “just like”.

    Russia viewed NATO as an existential threat - if you put yourself in their shoes they had good reason to do so.

    By contrast neither Iraq nor Afghanistan were seen by the US as an existential threat.
 
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