Is Russia going to invade the Ukraine? That's uncertain but this has some comparisons to how we objected to the Russian presence in Cuba in the 60s.
I don't think most Americans are even that aware of the issue inciting these events. Ukraine wants to join NATO and NATO is considering it. Russia views NATO 9with some justification) as an anti-Russian alliance. This amounts to having a semi-hostile alliance on its southern border.
NATO has been growing since the end of the USSR and the fall of the Eastern Bloc. In many ways it shouldn't matter since it is supposedly a defensive alliance. However NATO has evolved and while to us it seems defensive, would we feel the same way if a powerful anti-American Alliance took hold in say Mexico?
We saw our reaction to defensive missiles in CUBA which almost led t war.
Hopefully this can be resolved diplomatically, but Ukraine joining NATO is probably a bad idea.
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