'If you had Putin as a neighbor, you would probably want to join NATO, too.' -freddoso
This is the most important fact to keep in mind whenever you hear the arguments of Americans who try to justify Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine, or argue that somehow the U.S. has malign intentions there.They will try to argue that Putin felt pressure from NATO expansion, which practically compelled him to invade because he felt so threatened.
Finally, Putin has caused NATO countries to do two things that former President Donald Trump brusquely demanded they do. First, they have weaned themselves from Russian gas. Second, they are upping their military budgets to account for the threat that Russia poses. And Poland, one of the countries that was always doing better than the others in terms of pulling its weight militarily, is now going much further than that.
One of the episodes of Servant of the People, the comedic television show that originally made Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky famous, begins with a humorous phone call from former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The fictional president Zelensky takes the call on his mobile and receives congratulations, in English, on his nation's acceptance into the European Union. Delighted, Zelensky begins to express his thanks and the gratitude of all Ukrainians.
At the time that aired, Ukraine was no different from any other backward, corrupt, formerly communist Eastern European country, except perhaps that it was poorer than most. It hadn't been important enough for anyone to intervene in 2014 when Russia seized Crimea and funded, armed, and partly staffed an insurgency in Eastern Ukraine. When Putin downed a civilian airliner, again it wasn't enough for anyone else to intervene.
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