The whole wa=ar is because Russia sees the NATO expansion all the way up to its borders as a threat to its existence. 25 million dead in WW2 is something we in the US can’t fathom.
They haven’t forgot. Now they are basically being surrounded on all fronts. Sorry but yes, Russia sees this as a fight for its survival.
If it goes to war with the US, it will be nuclear.
Starving 10 million Ukrainians to death and sending your own citizens to the Siberian camps for saying the wrong thing or having the wrong friends is also something we can't fathom.
Russia is a self-inflicted problem, and has been for hundreds of years.
“They haven’t forgot. Now they are basically being surrounded on all fronts. Sorry but yes, Russia sees this as a fight for its survival.”
And yet Putin is so stupid he can’t see the Chinese Communists doing the same thing in Siberia that he is doing in Ukraine and wants to do to all of eastern and central Europe.
Putin desires empire more than peace with his western neighbors. Ukraine isn’t a threat to Russia. It is a threat to dictatorial Putinism.
Where is the Ukraine’s buffer zone?
The Ukraine didn’t have it easy back then either.
Estonia and Latvia are members of NATO. The have a common
border with Russia. Did Putin invade them?
That test doesn’t hold a lot of water for a few reasons.
Which nation in the region has been invading it’s neighbors
the most? It isn’t the Ukraine. I believe the Ukraine is
the third nation.