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[–] Skua@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago

The only way that reading Stoltenberg's comments and then blaming the invasion on NATO makes sense is if you think that Russia has an actual right to decide how other countries choose to align themselves. Putin showed up at NATO's door threatening to beat up a random non-NATO country if NATO didn't kick out half of its members. Russia has no right to demand that countries that willingly signed up to NATO be kicked out. Most of them signed up specifically because of how Russia has frequently acted in the past.