[Svartalfiar]

Again, this conflict could have completely been avoided by simply pulling NATO expansion off the table.

Ironically, Russia's special military operation simply for the retconned purpose of "keep Ukraine out of NATO", is what caused the biggest increase in the direct NATO-Russia border, ever!

[Robert DeLong]

NATO had always desired to surround the Soviet Union, but since the Soviet Union disappeared they just turned to surrounding Russia instead. It was a blunder of epic proportion. Instead what we tried to do with China, and failed, should have been transferred to Russia, sans the mistakes we made in China.