Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
What exactly is the serious truth? He has increased his land border with NATO because of his invasion. He has pulled soldiers away from the NATO border because of the invasion. It's not about NATO.

It's true that he's against NATO in that part of the world because he can't invade them once they're in, amongst other reasons. It's not a surprise that they want to join.

Most European countries have moved on from their imperial ambitions. France fought for Algeria but let it go. We fought for Ireland but let it go. Portugal let their African colonies go decades ago.
TSHANO has not been able to differentiate between tanks rolling into a country and countries queuing up to apply to join an organisation that will contest tanks rolling into a country.

Let's take some non-Western press:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/...ukraine-border

November 2021:

"Russia has denied media reports that it is massing military units near its border with Ukraine."

Or perhaps he should remind himself of: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ed-2022-02-16/

""If Russia is successful in Ukraine, it would encourage it to increase pressure on the Baltics in the coming years," he said. "The threat of war has become the main policy tool for Putin."
Russia's defense ministry said its forces were pulling back after exercises in southern and western military districts near Ukraine, and Moscow's ambassador to Ireland insisted forces in western Russia would be back to their normal positions within three to four weeks."

That's like the week before the invasion.

Oops, sorry, I forgot. Russia isn't at war, it's just a "special military operation"