Will NATO annex Ukraine?

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6. No, he is not a tool for Putin.

However, on any given issue it's fairly easy to see how he'll land.

First, he has his set of priorities and interests. Some topics simply are ignored.

Second, how does the West, esp. the US, fare in any potential outcome.

The "uprising" started long before the EU was point-center. It really gathered steam after repressive measures by Yanukovich.

The prediction in the OP would say that the "uprising" only started at the behest of NATO when EU was no longer likely to prevail. It's odd to speak of a "prediction" when the course of events is so well known.

It's also hard to square this OP with all the anti-fascist rhetoric that we hear--meaning that somehow the EU and NATO are fascist, while Putin isn't. That kind of synthesis is incorrect: It presumes that there's a coherent single message that focuses on that kind of detail or motivation, when the motivation is simple: RT goes with any story that makes Putin and Russia the hero and/or the US/EU bad, unless Putin/US/EU all happen on the same said (because it's in Putin's or Russia's interest). So RT has the gratuitous "bad US" and "bad EU" story that's just West-bashing a la Izvestija, making Russia look good by silence. But RT will also peg any convenient motivation on foes and competitors simply to cause a spike in ill-will, wagon-circling, and defensive indignation. The consistency is rhetorical and emotional, not logical.