• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Which is why I’m baffled why people still spread the myth that Russia invaded to ‘stop nato aggression.’

    Like, firstly you’re fucking wrong, but if you want to wear that L like a medal then go for it. Russia is the biggest reason the baltics joined.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      I’m not sure who would say that it was to ‘stop NATO aggression’, but it’s not hard to imagine it as a some kind of response to NATO’s continued expansion around them.

      NATO hasn’t been in any direct operations against Russia but they have been involved in the ME where they have been active.

      I think of it a lot in the same way as the US’s pacific ocean and Caribbean territorial expansion and involvement in central america as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and Soviet posturing.

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        5 months ago

        I think of it a lot in the same way as the US’s pacific ocean and Caribbean territorial expansion and involvement in central america as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and Soviet posturing.

        The “Cuban” missile crisis was started by USA putting nukes in Turkey.