Brian “What Putin and the residents of Moscow and Saint Petersburg don’t want is 25 million Russian refugees getting tossed out of the former republics of the CCCP that are not part of the Russian Federation.”
Brian - the 25 million “ethnic Russians” are not those living in the former republics of the USSR - those are “ethnic Russians” living outside the Russian federation - including Russians in the USA.
The total number of “ethnic Russians” living outside the borders of the Russian Federation but in the states that were part of the former USSR number 15 million.
However many of those “ethnic Russians” feel members of the states they belong in (”many” but not all)
And there is NO movement to toss out ethnic Russians in any of these places.
And no, there was no movement to toss out ethnic Russians in Ukraine (8.3 MM called themselves ethnic Russians - but still didn’t want to join Russia)
Not really. How many Finns want a war with Russia? No many. If NATO goes to war, will Finland? Only if there is a good reason and Putin will not. If The US/Poland invades Russia—will Finland fight? I don’t think so. How many NATO States will join the war—if NATO Attacks and Poland gets Warsaw Nuked? How many other states wants to follow her example? What if the US forces Finland to fight? Might she join Russia?