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This is rubbish. They couldn't join NATO, russia had invaded them, as well as a bunch of other countries I might add. This special operation was to stop them joining the EU.
A failing dictatorship cannot have a neighbour have free elections, vote in who they want, & be economically prosperous. Thats the beginning, middle & end of it.
All this bs about nato this & nato that is a lie & you're either a troll, delusional, or both.
Dictatorship needs an enemy to hide its failed corruption.
By vote in who they want you mean that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LUCCR4jAS3Y?
The pro-western proxies in Ukraine were vying to join NATO long before the Russian invasion as early as the 90's
I agree with you on many points if not every detail, a failing empire like the US could not allow a vassal to move away economically, thus their motivation for overthrowing the democratically elected Yanukovych government
John McCain tells Ukraine protesters: 'We are here to support your just cause'
The US & the Ukraine conflict : Recorded conversation between Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt
To think this conflict is completely insular and that geo-politics and the worlds most powerful(and implicitly anti-Russian) military alliance didn't, doesn't and will not play a major role in the run-up to, waging of and aftermath of the war is either incredibly naïve, wilfully ignorant, delusional or the product of a propagandised mind to whom 'vibes' are more important that objective fact and reality
So you've moved away from it simply being NATO, to now saying its a vassal moving away & politically & economically, which is exactly what I said. I didn't say the "west" had nothing to do with it, you're saying that.
So how about you make your mind up?
Why do you see these things as mutually exclusive? NATO is an arm of US empire.
My position as been consistent throughout this conversation. Yanukovych's Ukrainian government was moving economically towards Russia, the US used various means to coup their vassal's government and install one that was more aligned with their interests and against Russia's, this was one of the major impetuses for the war.