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Re:Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll by ncann on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:25PM (#30728950)
> since Dec 2021

It goes back way earlier than that. Russia has repeatedly expressed in no uncertain terms that Ukraine is the single one red line that they will never accept joining NATO. A very insightful article on FP on the topic:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/19/ukraine-russia-nato-cri...

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Re:Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll by emptysongglass on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:55AM (#30731493)
It's totally nonsensical and does not map to Putin's writings on the essential unity of Ukraine and Russia or myriad other geographic, demographic, and resource-based practicalities of why Putin wants this war.

Please see my earlier comments for why this but-NATO! argument is the opium toked by demagogues and their acolytes.

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