« Reply #11869 on: March 13, 2022, 12:28:22 pm »
I'm not seeing that one.
Ukraine attacked Russia (and its babies) how?
Russia is the invader, here.
What does Russia say about the why?https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/real-reason-why-putin-might-invade-ukraine-ron-aledo-m-aQuote from the article.In the south Ukraine actually is the buffer that Russia needs. Russia cannot give up Ukraine to NATO as it considers it an existential threat. If Ukraine becomes part of NATO then the US, UK, Germany, Poland, etc., etc. can all deploy large number of troops with offensive weapons, take over control of the extremely important naval base of Sebastopol and further more put in mortal danger the industrial and energy heart of Russia in the Caucasus and the Volgograd areas. The Germans knew how important that areas were and that the Russian oil was there. That is why they desperately tried to take that area with the terrible battle of Stalingrad (Volgograd) during 1942-43. Also if the US or UK place hypersonic missiles in Ukraine those can reach Moscow in about 5 minutes. Something that Russia can never ever accept. Because of Sebastopol, the oil and agriculture rich areas of Volgograd and the Caucasus, the potential missile threat, Russia sees an Ukraine member of NATO as an existential threat, as a Barbarossa operation part II that will succeed in destroying the country.What does Russia want? Russia will not talk to the NATO Secretary General as they don’t want to talk to the figure head. They will only talk to the real power behind it, to the US. And Russia is demanding a written assurance that Ukraine will never ever be part of NATO. Regardless of the promise made to Ukraine by NATO in 2008 and the Ukraine vote to abandon their “neutrality” from December 2014, Russia wants in written a solid promise that Ukraine will not be part of NATO, now nor in the future. Period.
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