NATO wasn’t in Ukraine, Ukraine had pledged not to join NATO as part of their disarmament, and the attack on Ukraine encouraged more countries to join NATO.
If “a buffer against NATO” was the actual goal, that existed in post-Maidan Ukraine already, and the invasion directly counteracts that goal.
Also their stated reason was denazification of Ukraine, which is pretty much just rejected by the international community as an unreasonable CB.
There were several goals stated. It’s clear to anyone with a modicum of intelligence
that denazification was meant for domestic politics.
The Minsk accords were never implemented and Merkel bragged about it being a small tactic to arm the Ukrainians.
I suppose we’ll see who ends up writing the history books to see which of us is right.
NATO wasn’t in Ukraine, Ukraine had pledged not to join NATO as part of their disarmament, and the attack on Ukraine encouraged more countries to join NATO.
If “a buffer against NATO” was the actual goal, that existed in post-Maidan Ukraine already, and the invasion directly counteracts that goal.
Also their stated reason was denazification of Ukraine, which is pretty much just rejected by the international community as an unreasonable CB.
There were several goals stated. It’s clear to anyone with a modicum of intelligence that denazification was meant for domestic politics. The Minsk accords were never implemented and Merkel bragged about it being a small tactic to arm the Ukrainians. I suppose we’ll see who ends up writing the history books to see which of us is right.
The US and EU will write the history books, regardless of who wins the war.
Effectively, those two are the world, despite being a minority population. That’s just the way the geopolitical cookie crumbles.