There are fears Europe is the closest it has been to war in decades. What's causing the Russia-Ukraine crisis?

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As more than 100,000 Russian troops amass at the Ukranian border and diplomatic talks continue to fail, the West is on edge that Europe is teetering towards its first war in 30 years.

Germany's Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock — whose talks with her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, also ended with no breakthrough last week — said Moscow would pay the price if it moved on Ukraine but that diplomacy was "the only way".

The Biden administration has prepared a broad set of sanctions and other economic penalties to impose on Russia in the event of an invasion. China's Xi Jinping, right, will be watching closely to see how the US responds to Russian President Vladimire Putin's actions in Ukraine, according to Professor Paul Dibb.Professor Dibb does not think new sanctions will have any impact "whatsoever" in deterring Mr Putin from making moves on his neighbour.

 

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maybe if Ukraine hadn't been so hopelessly corrupt for such a long time they could have forged their own future ... US will not ride to the rescue.

We should drive our sweet new tanks up there and help out! Shouldn’t take too long. Couple of ferrys. No drama.

A megalomanic is causing the crisis.

No where to park their tanks anymore...

With weak leadership from POTUS Ukraine best too join NATO now and hope the rest of NATO will help RussiaUkraine

CGWJS54139911 A: the proximity of U.S. military Bases to Russia's borders.

got the impression that if a nation is amassing troops and weapons along a disputed border they are not doing it because they have run out of storage options.

What's causing the crisis? I don't know. Could it be war-mongering articles by irresponsible media and weapons manufacturers?

What part of Russia and Ukraine is in Europe?

Uh… Russia. Next question please!

Europe has had 100s of ethnic and world wars from Roman times to Napoleon to Putin Even EU is not stopping war Germany is trying to unify Europe with $-bils in subsidy to Italy to Romania and the Balkans

It will be the worst decision Putin has ever made if he does. 👍

Nothing to do with the $billions in oil and gas that flow through the Ukraine pipelines.

US interference maybe?

We let them have Crimea. What's the difference now?

Your west is creating this scenario. The belligerent US want to stop Russia's gas at all cost.

America as usual, Afghanistan is over they need a new war

It's blatantly obvious that Ukraine once being part of the USSR has defected to the EU claiming that an ex intelligence officer of the Al Qaeda resistance fighter network, who was pivotal in masterminding 911 we're fascist. Which makes a good read, if the whole 9 yards were true.

Is it oil?

Russia wants Ukraine back This is a very old argument by Russia and sore point as well

Insanity. Ukraine’s never been, and probably shouldn’t be, an independent nation. The west gave Gorbachev assurances they’d not go further east with NATO, and then they did.

I live in Europe and it doesn’t even remotely feel like a war is coming!!

1991: NATO ' we won't give one step to the east ' what happened? NATO tried to incorporate Baltic Republic, Ukraine, everybody into NATO...

NATO and the CIA training ultra-nationalist militias and supporting Ukrainian fascist movements, as they have done since the Cold War.

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