• F_State@midwest.social
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      2 days ago

      What Putin wants is to normalize his provocations while driving a wedge between NATO members he can intimidate and those he hopes in invade someday.

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        1 day ago

        What evidence is there that Russia wants to invade NATO countries?

        Edit: downvoted for asking a question. Interesting.

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          12 hours ago

          Edit: downvoted for asking a question. Interesting.

          Well, since you don’t seem to pay much attention to history, current events, or geopolitics, there’s no way to answer your question without writing you an essay and that’s not a reasonable thing for you to expect of strangers on the internet.

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          Putin likes to believe all those now-NATO ex Soviet satellites are his. He absolutely wants to invade those NATO countries and consume them, evidenced by the fact that he is currently doing that to Ukraine and explicitly threatened to go nuclear if they joined NATO l, because that would have been very inconvenient for him.

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          Yes, multiple declarations and menaces made on Russian Public channels by Russian Public servants. It’s important to know that the Russian state has power over the editorial choices of those channels.

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              See Vladimir Soloviev (journalist, presenter on the public funded Rossiya 1 channel), Dmitri Medvedev ( current vice president of the Russian federation security council), Margarita Simonian (public servant at Russia Segodnia).

              Do your own research, it should be easy enough.