No, not all of Europe. I think they said it loud and clear: they want Europe as it was before 1997, they want to reestablish the Soviet Union, and they want the spheres of influence again. I understand that people in Dublin or Madrid are not worried, but you should also understand why people in Riga, Warsaw, or Prague are.
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It's my understanding that they want hard security guarantees along their borders.
Yeah, that is correct... And that is exactly what I'm talking about. There is just one small thing you seem not to fully grasp, which can be illustrated by the words of Václav Havel: "I think there has been a Russian problem for many centuries: Russia doesn't know exactly where it begins and where it ends."
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Which they've been asking for since the 90s and the US and NATO have blatantly ignored.
Annoyingly, I'm siding with Russia on most of this. 🤷♂️
Granted, waging an offensive war is not at all right, so they loose me at that.