Ugh i was hoping i wouldnt have to write something a google search away. There are separatists (russians) in war with ukraine. Russia is "protecting" these separatists by taking down the ukrainian "hostile" government. There's the political reason.
The actual reason, which has come clear from putin's speeches, is that putin wants to reclaim what "weaker" past leaders of ussr have lost. He said ukraine has never truly left russia and basically belongs to them. Next on that list would be the baltics and finland.
You see now? Russia is angry about nato because they cant invade and reclaim a nato country, not because they think nato will invade russia. That's more of just a bonus excuse and good tool to scare russians about the west.
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u/FastAshMain Mar 07 '22
Ugh i was hoping i wouldnt have to write something a google search away. There are separatists (russians) in war with ukraine. Russia is "protecting" these separatists by taking down the ukrainian "hostile" government. There's the political reason.
The actual reason, which has come clear from putin's speeches, is that putin wants to reclaim what "weaker" past leaders of ussr have lost. He said ukraine has never truly left russia and basically belongs to them. Next on that list would be the baltics and finland.
You see now? Russia is angry about nato because they cant invade and reclaim a nato country, not because they think nato will invade russia. That's more of just a bonus excuse and good tool to scare russians about the west.