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Well, the EU has a Russian military base at its border, and did not escalate any war because of that?

I don't know, may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat. Or may be NATO have some other ways of dealing with this threat.

I don't know, may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat.

That's certainly true now, even if it wasn't true before. So why would Putin act in a way that was absolutely guaranteed -- win, lose or draw -- to fortify and entrench NATO's presence on Russia's borders?

His NATO excuse never made any sense. Don't invade anybody, and you have nothing to fear from NATO.

>His NATO excuse never made any sense. Don't invade anybody, and you have nothing to fear from NATO.

May be he is/was worried about USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkl2XgZlw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU

> may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat

Or maybe Russia see eastern and central Europe as their sphere of influence, which they lost. And now they're using any excuse to try to re-establish that.

What kind of NATO danger did they expect from Georgia?

Russia had zero reason to see de-militarised Europe as a threat.

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