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05/10/23
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Originally posted by dirtygecko:
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You're trying to isolate an event from it's context as usual. The invasion wouldn't have happened, if NATO agreed not to abandon it's attempts at expanding into Ukraine. ... March 2022. The "invasion" could have all been over right there and then. Ukraine and Russia nearly reached an agreement, where Russia would have withdrawn all it's troops from all the territories it occupied after Feb 2022, and Ukraine provides Russia with security guarantees, promises of neutrality and non-alignment with NATO. Then one of the Ukrainian-side negotiators gets killed off by SBU. Some of the other negotiators on both sides get poisoned allegedly. Boris Johnson (and other EU/US leaders) sabotaged that peace deal, encouraging Ukraine to fight on. Well now here we are. Hundreds of thousands dead, dozens of cities and villages damaged or destroyed, millions of Ukrainians fled (most of them will most likely never come back). Tens of millions suffering daily. Over over a hundren billion dollars of US/EU taxpayers money has been absolutely wasted (as far as the taxpayers go). Why? Because NATO wants it this way.
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"The invasion wouldn't have happened, if NATO agreed not to abandon it's attempts at expanding into Ukraine." You're wrong. If 2 NATO member countries (Estonia and Latvia) already bordering Russia were not a concern for Russia, Ukraine as a NATO member would not have been a concern either. And, not that Sweden and Finland will probably become NATO members, will Russia be justified in invading them?