crissindahouse said:
Nahh, there are enough who really think like him. Not sure what he would even say without a possible ban from this forum but from my own experience at my work there are not only Russians (and all I know are 100% pro Putin in this case) but in my case also some Germans completely on Putin's side. A minority but still some I know sadly. Arguing about how it's understandable because Russia is surrounded by enemies, how Ukraine is probably working on bio weapons with USA's help to be a thread in the future to Russians and stuff like that. I mean, sure, it does suck for Russia that especially USA seems to surround Russia from everywhere but that's still no argument to attack Ukraine.
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1) Surrounded by a defensive pack is not a threat. NATO has never been the aggressor. If individual nations that happen to be in NATO choose to aggressively attack someone, the entirety of NATO will not join and those that do will be in the minority. There is literally no threat of NATO invasion to Russia.
2) It isn't NATO's fault, or the EU, that what they offer is more appealing than what the Russian Ivan the Terrible -Maximilien Robespierre-like government offers.
3) It isn't anyone's fault that Russia has so many flanks to defend except their own. When you have by far the most border mileage with other nations in the world, you just have to get used to that. They have more territory to defend than anyone else, yet they keep wanting more.
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