They wold have come eventually,after the USA got them into NATO, meanwhile, they were actually training the Ukrainian military in NATO tactics.
At this point, it's gone past sad, into
hilarious, how you just uncritically repeat Russian propaganda, and casually move the goal-posts.
NATO was not in Ukraine, it wasn't on the verge of entering Ukraine, and there certainly weren't bases that had even
started construction to host NATO forces. Even if Ukraine did decide to join NATO,
as a sovereign nation, that is Ukraine's decision, not Russia, and as NATO has never invaded Russia, but Russia has invaded plenty of border nations (and is doing so again right now!), that
still wouldn't be a valid reason to invade.
Yet in this-
We will have to see if that assumption actually pans put, maybe in 6 months or a year.
Sure, sure, like the USA wouldn't invade Mexico if it started hosting Chinese military bases and started repressing pro-American groups and Americans living within its territory and began calling Americans cockroaches.
Forget the Virgin Locke and embrace the Chad Hobbes, at least where international relations are concerned.
-post you are clearly using that as the justification for this.
And it's so
hilariously obvious that this, and all the wailing about the ongoing fighting in the Donbass, is just an excuse. If Russia was
actually going in for 'humanitarian' reasons, then they'd have rolled out in overwhelming force into the Donbass/Crimea/whatever, but they didn't.
They launched broad-front invasions, and tried for a decapitation strike on the government in Kyiv on top of that. This was transparently an attempt to either outright annex the nation, or to replace the government with a puppet government, and rule by proxy.
Yes, Ukraine has corruption problems. Yes, nasty things are happening within the nation, some of them outright despicable. These things should stop, and applying heavy pressure to get the Ukrainians to stop would be a good idea. But you know what?
That doesn't give the Russians the right to invade.
More, Russia has done and is doing far worse, so if that's the standard, then Russia should be getting crushed by other nations right now.
I'm not sure what's more grimly humorous; how transparent the Russian propaganda is, or how eagerly you fall for it.
Yes. The training base. With training facilities. That has been training the Ukrainians for years now. All of the sudden,
now that's an excuse for invasion? Why wasn't it when the base was set up (checks text in document) and started running joint training operations
back in the nineties?
...It's almost like they got invaded by Russia eight years ago, got their asses kicked, and
didn't want that to happen again. More, their fears were clearly justified, given here Russia is, invading them again!
There are no rows of tanks at that base, no fleets of helicopter gunships, no F-35s, no brigades of infantry forming up to march on Russia. In fact, it's on the western border of Ukraine,
much farther from Russian territory than the NATO nations which are actually, actively, already on its borders.
Also, a standing invitation which has not been taken. And again, even if it was, that would not give Russia any moral right to invade.
(Also, trying to track down who actually owns that base, and it currently
looks like the Ukrainians do, they just invite NATO personnel in to train them.)
