I agree that to understand Putin's motivations for invasion, the key & overwhelming driver is revanchist Russian imperialism (Putin's own speeches make that clear). In order to understand Putin's rise & exploitation of a wider nationalism, though, Western role & NATO is crucialhttps://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1498356636460720135 …
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Sure but what else should have been done? Without NATO where would be be now? It’s hardly clear that it would be a better situation.
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Why do all of Russia’s neighbors feel the need to be in a defensive military alliance?
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Well, the humiliation is continuing, and it's their own damn fault.
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Invading smaller countries is only going to make more want to join NATO though. Like this isn't something the west is forcing on anyone. Russia's neighbors don't trust it and want the protection
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Increasingly clear that the Clintons are the most important/impactful people of the last 30 years, and for all the wrong reasons: (A) free trade (B) deregulation of financial markets (C) Allowing Russia to rot post Cold War rather than invest in it (D) Trump
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There's a context to that, too: the USSR took on an arms race with the US long before the 1990s. And wound up losing.
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So tired of this idea that Russia's hurt pride was of more legitimate concern than the aspirations of all the Eastern European former subjects of Russian imperial rule in their desperate desire for protection and membership in the Western worldhttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1498371552877940738?s=20&t=rcS8VTPmPugyJTZ45iXgSw …
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I also don't care about the British and French being humiliated after the US blew up their Suez conspiracy, the French loss of pride after Vietnam and Algeria, or the British malaise after losing most of its empirehttps://twitter.com/XLProfessor/status/1498376578354532353?s=20&t=rcS8VTPmPugyJTZ45iXgSw …
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Management of the peace between the USA and Russia after the fall of the USSR has not been as catastrophic as the fallout of the Treaty of Versailles, but that's about the only comparison that makes it look OK.
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