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themafiatoday at 6:47 AM1 replyview on HN

The same peace they enjoyed for decades before the UN decided to court Ukraine for membership. They had balance of trade agreements, resource use agreements, and generalized peace.

Can you elaborate as to why you seem to think this was impossible?


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 8:05 AM

> before the UN decided to court Ukraine

...NATO?

Also, NATO accession talks for Ukraine were dead for years when Russia invaded Crimea. The notion that Russia was forced to invade Ukraine holds up about as much as the claim that America was forced to bomb Iran.