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Just as the US was feeling threatened in the 60s with the Soviets trying to put missiles on their doorstep in Cuba, Russia also feels threatened by NATO and the EU alliances inching closer towards their country. Just because many people choose not to listen, doesn't mean that Russia hasn't been talking about this exact kind of thing for the last 20 years or so.

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US has never moved nuclear missiles closer to Russia in Europe after the end of the cold war. Unlike Russia who is today talking about putting nuclear weapons in Belarus.

> Unlike Russia who is today talking

So the US has never done something that Russia has also not done? I don't understand.

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> Russia also feels threatened by NATO and the EU alliances inching closer towards their country.

Eastern countries are inching closer to NATO, not the other way around. Russia's latest invasion is the reason why. You might as well have said:

> Russia feels threatened by countries trying to protect themselves.

> Eastern countries are inching closer to NATO

You got this exactly backwards. Countries don't move, but NATO membership does. NATO has been expanding eastwards and Russia has been consistently & explicitly clear that is unacceptable.

> Countries don't move

Go tell that to Crimea.

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