Putin Warned Us
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With agency: Ukraine has a neighbor who threatens to use Ukraine as a stepping stone, and another neighbor who doesn't
Which neighbor would Ukraine view positive, which would they view negative?
No, it's not.
> Russia made clear that it considers further Nato expansion an existential threat.
Well, yes, of course; if you are trying to justify something as flagrantly out of line with international law as what Russia is doing, that's what you are going to use as your propaganda line to the international community. Of course, a very large portion of Putin’s argument in, e.g., his war announcement speech wasn't about this existential threat, but about the historic territorial extent of the Russian Empire and the USSR and the stab in the back to the Russian people delivered by the officials of the latter alienating Russian territory to create Ukraine and then allowing the Soviet Union to fall. So even while sometimes claiming an existential threat, Putin reveals that that isn't his real motivation, but instead his own “idealistic fantasies of what is right and wrong”.
Russia doesn't own Ukraine, Russia isn't Ukraine's dad, Russia saying "don't marry my daughter" to NATO, should be laughed at, Russia has zero right to dictate that another country should not be allowed to seek safety from Russia. Russia is not special.