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We do see the argument that the Russian Federation has put into place about NATO, the issue is that if the Russian Federation feels threatened by the expansion of NATO then the issue is one of diplomacy and tact, not whether the Russian Federation's position is justified or not. NATO as an organisation has a feeble position here, in the first part because NATO is not, nor was ever, designed to have any expansionist component to its existence, and in the second because NATO was designed as a defensive organisation and has no means about it that allows it to be used in any offensive capacity. If it transpires that NATO is attempting to full-fill some role that does not exist, then that role must be fully known.

But the Russian Federations position is also weaker than is supposed, the special operation that has been put into place by the Russian Federation primarily concerns itself with the security and safety of the Russian-speaking part of eastern Ukraine, which the Ukrainians continue to attack for some species purpose that will never succeed.

What exactly is NATO's role in the midst of what is, essentially, a large scale and established peacekeeping operation?

Whatever the answer to all of this actually is, and whatever will transpire of its own accord in time, Ukraine is currently under martial law, the European Union is determinately inconvenienced, the United States is depressed and the rest of the world can't see the point of any part of it, supposedly.

My reading of this is that Ukraine’s "situation" is the most feeble part of it all, and the background, whatever that actually is in this particular instance, would rather not be the background.

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