Putin apparently sees it as his historic mission to reestablish the Russian Empire. Crimea came first, next the rest of Ukraine. If Finland has any sense they will promptly join NATO if Ukraine is invaded.
“If Finland has any sense they will promptly join NATO if Ukraine is invaded.”
Yeah, and if the US has any sense it would withdraw from NATO.
NATO is of no benefit to the US at all, ever.
And it’s a major national security liability.
Gee, I can’t wait to send Johnny from Peoria to Finland to fight the Russians
Utter bulls#it.
Crimea was part of Russia since Catherine the Great took it from the Ottomans in 1783.
Khrushchev transferred it to Ukraine in a deal for political support after the death of Stalin in the 1950s. This would be like a presidential candidate giving Long Island to Connecticut for electoral college votes. New York would never accept this.
In 1990, Sec State James Baker promised Gorbachev that if the Soviet military left Eastern Europe, NATO would NOT expand eastward. Baker promised “the Austrian solution,” a demilitarized and neutral Eastern Europe in return for Soviet force withdrawal.
America and NATO broke this agreement, now NATO extends from Estonia to Romania.
Ukraine is Russia’s final red line. We ignore this geopolitical reality at our own peril.
Putin wants to recreate or re constitute the USSR, and instal himself as the head of the Communist Party Soviet Union. It would also recreate the KGB.
Obama and Soros were behind all of it.
Your spin is what is propaganda.
I deny this article. I think it is a neocon psyop.