• whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ukraine wasn’t trying to join NATO before Russia invaded neighbors including Crimea in Ukraine,

    2018 and 2019 were well after Crimea, and the popular opinion in Ukraine shifted towards NATO in 2008 because of the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, one of said neighbors.

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      4 months ago

      But while Ukraine’s leadership has directly pressed for membership since at least 2008

      because of the Russian invasion of Georgia

      Why stop there? Lets argue about the Winter War.

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        4 months ago

        Because the Soviet Union who is not Russia fought the winter war, and Russia’s government signed the Budapest memorandum in 1994.