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Old 03-21-2022, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by MartinSE View Post
I agree with you, but I think you left out the why, that being that Ukraine is a Democracy and Putin could not risk Russians seeing a next door Democracy resulting in a better life than his dictatorship.
You should add Russia very much wants a buffer between itself and Germany/Ukraine