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A post on Ask Lemmygrad by user Cyber Ghost titled “What are the reasons why Russia attacked Ukraine?”
Below is the comment by user @cfgaussian reading: “The Nazi Kiev regime attacked the ethnically Russian Donbass for eight years intending to commit genocide in their quest for an ethnically pure Ukraine and Russia finally came to their aid after it became clear that the Minsk agreements were never going to be honored. Also, NATO was turning Ukraine into a hyper militarized threat to the integrity and security of Russia itself. Refusal of the US and Europe to negotiate on a new inclusive security framework, refusal to stop NATO expansion eastward, and the relentless and violent anti-Russian psychosis that has gripped Ukraine since the Maiden coup that triggered a civil war in a country in which half or more of the population are essentially Russian became intolerable.”
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I can understand Russia not being excited about the prospects of a NATO ally being on their border, but their own actions drive Ukraine towards NATO.
Also the whole Nazi thing is pretty stupid. It’s not like Ukraine holds a patent on neo nazis. Most Western countries have them even countries like Germany that have outlawed them, and Russia does too.
Russia already has what, four or five NATO members states on their doorstep: The Balkan states, now Finland, Turkey is pretty close and controls the Bosporus… and Poland borders Belarus which is a client state of Russia now.
Yeah Russian has taken some major Ls in that department recently. Russia’s strategy historical was to have buffer states so they had room to fall back before their enemies reach anything they cared about. Now with Finland NATO could line tanks up to roll into Saint Petersburg if a war ever broke out.
That isn’t even the dumbest thing Russia has claimed. They also said that they invaded Ukraine because it was full of… Satanists.