I mean — “I am worried about NATO expansion, therefore Ukrainians and Russians are a single ethnic group which I will unite” is not really coherent
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Yeah, the underlying objection to voluntary NATO and EU expansion, ostensibly for Russia's own security, now seems to pretty clearly be "because it would make it harder to invade and undermine and attack regions that we plan to reabsorb"
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What is NATO expansion, but fear of Russian oppression persevering?
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It’s a preemptive attack, they could have said literally anything
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Those concerns have also been acknowledged by George Kenan, Henry Kissinger, etc
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But suddenly the foreign policy establishment has forgotten their own patron saints!
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Correct, it’s been a key pretext in their propaganda for years
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its not not a factor, but I'd reckon that the Russian concerns over NATO are not regarding its military use but that it would begin integrating Ukraine into the European sphere. Hence Russian demands against both NATO and EU expansion.
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Exactly. The no EU is the same thing as no NATO. It's why they fund separatist movements. It's why they work to undermine international integration wherever they see it. They want a divided, weak Europe with isolated states they can dominate and manipulate. We've known this.
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Russia doesn't like NATO expansion because it's a DEFENSIVE COOP TREATY that threatens their OWN PLANS to re-expand the Soviet empire. Russia complaining about NATO expansion is like the mob complaining about RICO enactment/enforcement. NATO is not an aggressor. RUSSIA IS.
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