@nicholas_saunders
Prior to 2014 or even 2021 hardly anyone, including me, would have bet on any chance of #Ukraine becoming a #NATO member.
So, no, no provocation.
Fir some strange, unfathomable reason, most European neighbors of the #RussianEmpire, no called the #RusdianFederation, have sought to join #NATO. All by themselves.
I wonder why that is.
But listening to the #Putin, the reason becomes really clear, doesn't it.
I have many friends from Eastern Europe, ...