Ukraine has been neutral until now. She still hasn't entered anywhere.
The bear roared and screamed drunk long before 2014. What nudge are you talking about?
Did Russia invade Ukraine when Ukraine was neutral or when it joined NATO? We know the answer, so keep the downplaying of Russian aggression against an independent country.
Russia was the first to violate the Budepast Memorandum by attacking Ukraine in 2014. So complain to the Russians that your printed dollars are going to help Ukraine.
I didn't just mention hatred. Logically, this is not a reason to attack, of course, there is more. But fairy tales about evil NATO are ordinary lies and excuses. The aggressive and imperialist nature of the Russians themselves plays a major role.
Well if you think. Information and a chronology of events in Ukraine and Russia since 1991 are freely available on the Internet. It is up to everyone how they deal with them. But I would accuse NATO and the West at most of printing money and not arming enough.
Were the Russians afraid of Nato when they razed Chechnya to the ground? Or when they took a few percent of the land of Georgia? No NATO is to blame. Moskoviti (the old name of the Russians) are imperialists who plunder Ukrainian territories at least once every century.
The Russians attacked Ukraine because they hate the Ukrainians and want to destroy them. Don't look for any NATO or other nonsense in this.