Putin will save us from Globohomo
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Yeah I feel you. Again I've never been a big fan of Putin's but at the same time the agreement with NATO was set in the 90s. They've encroached over and over again, continuously, for decades now, moving closer and closer to surrounding Russia. I despise the war but I don't see Putin as the initial aggressor. He reacted, however poorly it may have been.
Which agreement with NATO are you talking about?
The NRFA was signed in '97 but before that in '91, Gorbachev was given assurances about NATO not expanding to the east. Like I said, it's a poor reaction but still a reaction nonetheless. I'm sure the US or China would respond in a similar manner if folks we viewed as adversaries were pushing up on our borders and using rhetoric to demonize us to the world at the same time, not to mention sanctions, etc.
If there is no contract then any comments made are not binding.
NATO is a defensive alliance and Russia has shown again and again how they deal with their neighbors. Who can blame countries to defend themselves against Russia?
Okay, handshake. Obviously geopolitics is a bit above your pay grade. Or maybe you're not old enough to remember the fall of the USSR and all of the good faith talks and agreements made - both on paper and off - around it.
I'm not saying Putin was right in invading Ukraine. At the same time though, how can you blame him when NATO creeps closer and closer when you know that he knows how Russia has been demonized in the US and elsewhere - irrationally demonized at that. Not only that but he sees the disgusting cultural exports of the US, the Marxism being implemented in all of the West, etc.
It's also fair to say that there's far more going on than you or I know or could imagine, there's so much history and much of it classified. And on top of it all, he took Crimea and no one did anything, plus the coup Obama pulled off in Ukraine. At the risk of sounding like an ass, you, respectfully, don't know what the hell you're talking about.