This is one conflict that absolutely did not need to happen, but they wouldn't stop making Russia feel uncomfortable with the continued NATO expansion. Want to prevent Russia from threatening their neighbors forever? Invite them to join NATO.
Russia didn’t invade Ukraine because of NATO. If NATO wasn’t there, Russia would have invaded it as soon as Putin was elected the first time, and really even earlier if NATO hadn’t been created, they would have taken West Germany and points West of the Iron Curtain just because they could.
The Russians helped start WW2 by invading Poland.
No, Russia did not invade Ukraine for any of the. excuses it gives in its propaganda, which is every bit as full of bullcrap as CNN.
Russia invaded Ukraine because it is the breadbasket of Europe, and Russia doesn’t want to rely on negotiation and trade to get what it needs or wants when it can simply conquer, deport the locals, colonize, and thereafter take what it wants, any time it wants, for as long as it wants instead of paying market prices.
It isn’t stupid like the US is. It keeps what it takes, with no intention of handing it back over to the locals.
And then there is the price gouging allure of it- Russia doesn’t want any kind of free trade but rather wants coercive power over all of its neighbors “from the Crimea to the Atlantic Ocean” by any means necessary, be it controlling the price of oil, gas,uranium, grain or any other lever it can take by force.
Sadly, I have to agree too.
Russia has been meddling in our affairs for at least 100yrs.
Putin funded the anti fracxking protests that led to the NY ban.
Communists and Marxists are currently destroying our nation.
We’re to blame for his Ukraine invasion! By jacking up oil prices on climatescam energy policy similar to the 2013 oil spike that led to 2014 Crimea invasion.,,,,and absolutely nothing else.