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Originally Posted by cordoba
The USA and NATO had a lot to do with that. Putin is on record as actually wanting to join NATO and perhaps the EU back then, but instead of carefully courting him and finally achieving the dream of integrating Russia into the West - with all the consequences for long term global peace and stability that would entail - the US not only fast-tracked the Eastern European countries into NATO, including the Baltic states that had been part of the Soviet Union just a few years before, but parked their military and even nukes there.
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I partially agree to this btw - mostly the first part - but you cannot underestimate the wish of the Baltics states, CZ, SK etc after having lived under Soviet terror for 40 years to be protected against that from ever happening again.
And if you look at Crimea, they were not wrong.