They aren’t random, they share a border with Russia and are nato members? They may not have been apart of what Ukraine once was to Russia, but they are exactly what Russia is using as their motivation. NATO members on their doorstep in the article you provided
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Which they are already currently defending
Okay so we’ve narrowed the frame from “Putin is a threat to Europe” to “Putin is a threat to countries that share a border”
I don't think anyone in their right mind justifies the invasion, or any invasions for that matter. You could argue that all of the US invasions in the last century have been unjustified.
‘No other option’: Excerpts of Putin’s speech declaring war
Before launching the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War II, Putin made an address.www.aljazeera.com
I was just going off this article citing the reasoning to be around the threat of nato. I’m sure there are many complicated factors but the energy mention you make still doesn’t justify their invasion in my view
Doesn't justify it in any moral sense but the gas fields and resources could be enough reason for the invasion after the 2014 CIA coup. If you accept they're both criminal enterprises fighting over who gets to launder the trillions, but I don't really know if it's that's simple.‘No other option’: Excerpts of Putin’s speech declaring war
Before launching the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War II, Putin made an address.
I was just going off this article citing the reasoning to be around the threat of nato. I’m sure there are many complicated factors but the energy mention you make still doesn’t justify their invasion in my view
That's what I mean, send some of the border defence to the war and those crazy Kazaks will start plotting!
What threatens Russia's future more, new competition to their primary export or Ukraine flirting with NATO?
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The article you provided states Putin saying the threat of nato moving east and military infrastructure on their borders to justify the invasion, but those already exist in the members already that they share a border with. It gives me the impression of trump pardoning the former Honduras president on drug trafficking charges while going after Maduro for the same thing
Don't know what the long game is, or why Putin would risk war with Europe when so much dark money has flowed there through his oligarchs, Trump's real estate enterprises for one. I assume it's the same with the Americans in Ukraine, like when Hunter Biden and half the CIA got jobs on the Burisma board.
Then you don’t really understand nation states, or even Russia. Let’s circle back to in how many other NATO countries did the Russian capital exist?
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The key word you mentioned to the significance of Kiev to Russia is historical, history. If the Ukrainian people had an appetite to return to Russian territories that would be different, but they don’t
They're merely seizing back the means of production
Putting Prussia back together
Seems more relevant what Russia wants is it not?
A million Ukrainians and a Russian victory disagree.
