Ukraine war: this map holds an important clue about Kremlin fears of NATO expansion

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44. When you say "this is their side of the story," consider the honesty of Tucker Carlson please. Also...

Consider how Russia co-opted Trump some 40 years ago and groomed him relentlessly.

Consider that Russia has centuries of practice in autocracy, spying on its own people (and others), and in telling its own people what to think and what to say. Now the propaganda is at an ever more sophisticated level.

That old-school map is a lie. It shows NATO aggressively moving in on poor peaceful Mother Russia from every direction.

Putin, born and bred at the KGB, will say anything and do anything if he thinks he can reassemble the USSR. He’s been taking lands back for some time. He took Crimea and NATO did nothing that I recall. I read some amazing and persistent appeasement posts here.

Then when Putin gathered his army along the borders and coast of Ukraine, again what did NATO do? And again I read amazing calls for appeasement. Ukraine had done nothing to provoke this, but they are fighting back admirably and honorably — and thank gods Biden is supporting Zelenskyy and has persuaded Congress to send arms. Appeasement never works against Putin. Or Stalin. Or Hitler.

But what is Putin doing with this territory he wants so much? Bombing it back to the Stone Age, to borrow a phrase. Demonizing its people and giving Russian troops the go-ahead for widespread rape and torture.

Appeasement never works.