Russia and Ukraine

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I can’t swallow the notion that a suspicion of a possibility of Ukraine’s admission into NATO is an existential threat to Russia. Nor am I buying into the nutty idea that an actual NATO admission of Ukraine constitutes that threat (though I happily admit that it is an existential threat to Russia’s policy of doing whatever the fuck it wants in Eastern Europe).

NATO is and always has been a defensive alliance. They don’t launch invasions, they don’t pressure countries into joining. All the jibber-jabber from Russia (and others) about ‘NATO imperialism’ is bollocks. And Putin’s soi disant justifications for the invasion amount to nothing more than ‘I thought he might hit me, so I hit him back first.’

Boru