Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Is Putin Right About Nato's Eastward Expansion? - TLDR News" video.
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@MrMartinSchou Yeah, tell that to Kennedy, who was ready to start a nuclear war because of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The situation with Ukraine is no different from the Caribbean crisis. And what makes you think that the expansion of NATO to the borders of Russia was necessary to protect against Russia, if Russia in the 90s, under Yeltsin, was a democratic state that pursued a pro-Western policy and did not attack anyone. In addition, the Americans and Germans promised that they would not allow NATO to expand further than Germany. But at the same time, they allowed, and moreover, placed nuclear weapons in Romania and Poland. The closer enemy missiles are to your borders, the worse your nuclear response and air defense systems react. It is crystal clear that Russia, due to economic and technological backwardness, could in fact lose its nuclear arsenal by 2030 as a guarantor of immunity, already in 2013 Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space industry, said that "we are 10-15 years behind the Americans in technology and doctrine. And the Americans have a nuclear war strategy such that they have developed satellite guidance and reconnaissance technology, and with the help of conventional missiles destroy the infrastructure of nuclear forces, thereby they can destroy most of the Russian nuclear forces in a matter of minutes, and then the Americans will launch their own missiles. Or they won't launch it. But in any case, Russia will no longer have a nuclear arsenal. Rogozin said that Russia has nothing like this, Russia has no missile defense either." And now judge for yourself - Putin comes from the special services. This man's worldview was shaped by the Cold War, he served in East Germany at that time. Yeltsin appointed Putin prime minister, in fact his successor, because the threat of separatism and Islamist terrorism (Chechnya) persisted in Russia. It is clear that this man, who also strengthened his personal power by filling the Russian parliament with people from the special services like him, is very concerned about the expansion of NATO. He may be exaggerating, but the fact is that Russia's relations with the West have been deteriorating since the late 90s, which was caused by the war in Yugoslavia. And now imagine what Russia feels - "we admitted our mistakes and abandoned the communist regime, we dissolved the USSR and gave everyone independence, we wanted to make peace and negotiate with the West, and the West bombed Yugoslavia, invaded Iraq, now we have bad relations again, and then the West completely broke its promises not to expand to our borders, and the Americans have placed their nuclear weapons near our borders, when we are gradually lagging behind them technologically and will soon lose our nuclear arsenal." What should Russia have done in such a situation?
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First of all, America is also guilty of genocides and murders. In America, there was the extermination of Indians and slavery. Babies are still being born in Vietnam with congenital mutations due to American chemical weapons. Secondly, Russia itself rejected the communist regime and admitted its mistakes. Khrushchev exposed Stalin and released political prisoners, in the 70s and 80s, democratization took place in Soviet society. And in 1991, the USSR was dissolved. Russia in the 90s was in very friendly relations with the West, Yeltsin was a pro-Western and democratic leader. Thanks to NATO's expansion to Russia's borders, Russia is forced to attack its neighbors in order to protect itself, which leads to a closed cycle. After all, everything was fine before NATO expansion. And Russia actually has good relations with Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. And if Russia is striving for expansion, then why was Georgia not completely captured by the Russians in 2008? This means that expansion is not Russia's goal.
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