Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

What strike?  Ukraine is under attack, not russia.

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Additionally, just so I understand, what part of denazification and saving ethnic russians does that justification for war..against ukraine...fall under?

Ukraine joining NATO allows NATO medium or intermediate range nuclear missiles to cover all of european russian, giving russia no time to act on any launch.    if nuclear deterrence has a high chance of being destroyed first without being launched in retaliation, then it is not a deterrence and might as well not be there at all.    From russian perspective it renders much of russian land based nuclear deterrence impotent.

So ukraine joining nato is essentially equivalent in effect to a successful preemptive counterforce or decapitating strike against Russia.

the denazification bullshit serves the same role as saddam’s mythical weapons of mass destruction.  it furnished evocative excuse for the domestic audience for the military action which otherwise may be receive as much support.

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