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A comment on European natural gas imports and storage reserves. Parent comment

Re:European natural gas imports and storage reserves by blub on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:55AM (#32825081)
AFAIK the reason why Ukraine wasn’t invited to join back then were objections from France and Germany. The US were courting them and lobbying for them to join.

This is a classic escalation spiral, where flirtations between Ukraine and NATO triggered Russian aggression which in turn intensified the collaboration of NATO and Ukraine. And so on and so forth.

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Re:European natural gas imports and storage reserves by The_Colonel on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:58AM (#32825144)
Nothing NATO related happened in 2013/2014 which would trigger the invasion. People keep ignoring the fact that from the Russian side this is not (just) about security/NATO, but about the larger goal of keeping CEE (and specifically Ukraine) within its sphere of control.
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Re:European natural gas imports and storage reserves by blub on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:40PM (#32829258)
First you said they were neutral, then I pointed out that they were courted by the US. 2014 was when Ukraine clearly changed its alignment to the West, which triggered Crimea.

It’s about several things, agreed.

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