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Thats exactly Russia's reasoning right now. What is essentially happening is that the US is the aggressor and Russia is simply defending itself from NATO expansion. I am not sure why everyone is just bashing Russia without thinking for 2 seconds about this topic.

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That's bullshit. The aggressor is the one who is invading and bombing another country.

The only reason why Ukraine even wants to get into NATO is because Russia has never stopped viewing it as a core part of its Greater Russia imperial restoration project. This is also why the entire Eastern Europe rushed to NATO as soon as they could - because they didn't want to end up like Ukraine did.

The reason eastern europe rushed to NATO is simply because the west was quite wealthy as a capitalist bloc, and the former communist countries viewed the west as a holy grail. If the eastern europeans wanted access to the european markets, they would have to go through EU integration, and of course NATO. Its not like they could join the EU if they still were in a warsaw-pact like military alliance. The truth is, the west had more influence because of their economies.

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