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essexpete

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Except it was the USA and the west that started it several years ago.

The west has been pushing for the expansion of NATO in Ukraine which Russia will not allow. The reason is that Russia is a major power, and major powers get to make demands of their neighbours when it comes to matters of national security.

Can Cuba host Russian missile sites if it wants? After all, Cuba is an independent sovereign state. Basically everyone recognises that, no, Cuba cannot do this. In fact, the US would probably threaten nuclear war before the first brick had been laid. (This is more or less what it did during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.)

Can Venezuela host Chinese air bases, within striking distance of the US? Again, the US would simply not allow this to happen. It has long followed the Monroe Doctrine, which holds that foreign powers must not intervene in the political affairs of countries in the Western hemisphere.

Ukraine is a core strategic interest for Russia, as that country’s leaders have explained repeatedly over the last three decades. There are already US missile sites and air bases throughout Europe. But for Russia, Ukraine is an absolute red line. Attempting to bring it into the Western sphere of influence was always likely to have disastrous consequences.

What we are witnessing in Ukraine is a pushback against Western aggression in the form of the eastward expansion of NATO to the point where it now poses an unacceptable threat to Russia’s security. Putin had been nothing if not relentless in making this point for years up to this juncture, but his warnings and words fell on the deaf ears of those resolute in their belief in Western hegemony in the wake of the collapse of Soviet Communism in the early 1990s.

In trying to move Ukraine into their orbit, Washington and its European allies overreached and Russia’s intervention — firstly in faciliating Crimea’s reunification with Moscow in 2014, then with the official recognition of the independence and sovereignty of the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, and now with a wider military operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine — is the result.

As things stand, the West has been reduced to a spectator of the consequences of its own disastrous foreign policy.
Good post. There are two sides to an argument, and whilst not condoning Putin for action on the ''piggy in the middle'', the West has contributed to the situation now facing Eastern Europe. Putin seems to have strung Western Europe along with trade and energy and simply waited for the right moment to strike. The next big question, how far will he push west in creating a no man's land? I hope the Russians themselves will be able to eventually call a halt on Putin. Wishful thinking perhaps?
 

Nav man

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Arable Farmer
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gloucestershire
the red i ordered yesterday which i was told would probably be 14 days away is coming tomorrow. My father in law ordered off a different supplier yesterday with same time scale and it arrived today! Cant be a supply issue in our area anymore?
 

Goffer

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
Stick or twist
 

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