I can’t quite wrap my head around this. There are other countries that joined NATO that are right on Russia’s doorstep, so what made Ukraine different from their perspective?
I can’t quite wrap my head around this. There are other countries that joined NATO that are right on Russia’s doorstep, so what made Ukraine different from their perspective?
Geography, the Baltic-Russian border is heavily forested and hilly and in the case of Estonia there’s two giant lakes that make up 80% of the border
Meanwhile, the wide open plains of eastern Ukraine north of Donbass lead right into the heart of Russia