It wasn't until *half a year after the Russian invasion of Donbas* that the country changed its neutrality stance to wanting to join NATO, and the public shifted to a pro-NATO stance. For the bloody obvious reason that THEY WERE INVADED BY RUSSIA.
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It's such an insulting and colonialist attitude that says "If you're not America, Russia or China, then you have no agency, you're just sheep who do what outside powers say". Ukrainians are no fucking sheep.
apr 25, 2025, 9:41 am • 3 1 • view
And lastly: the "not one inch eastward" thing is a myth. A lie. It never happened. It was *raised as a possibility* during the negotiations over the fate of Germany at the end of the Cold War, and *was rejected*. It was not in the agreed-on documents. Russia knew damned well what it was signing.
apr 25, 2025, 9:48 am • 1 0 • view
The claim of the "broken agreement" didn't start getting swung around until relatively recently. ***Putin Himself*** was not objecting to NATO expansion in the early days. ***Even In The Case Of Ukraine***. Because at the time, Russia did not see NATO as an enemy: www.nato.int/cps/cn/natoh...
apr 25, 2025, 9:52 am • 1 0 • view
Russia was even looking to *join NATO* for a while. While the first major cracks were shown in a 2007 speech by Putin, even as recently as 2010, Medvedev was saying that there was no distance between Russia and NATO and no claims against each other. en.kremlin.ru/events/presi...
apr 25, 2025, 9:53 am • 0 0 • view
This entire thing is a massive retcon, specifically targeted to dupe low-information news consumers.
apr 25, 2025, 9:54 am • 0 0 • view
I learn so much from your posts on Bluesky.
apr 25, 2025, 11:44 am • 1 0 • view