looking for info on the whole russia-ukraine thing 

so what.... exactly was putin/russia expecting to get out of this whole thing anyway? it seems like all they've managed to do so far is make an enemy of basically the entire world and i don't see how they could have expected it to turn out differently
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looking for info on the whole russia-ukraine thing 

@Felthry So a bit on the "why" here, because quite a few experts on this have been analyzing and speculating on this since long before the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych. The two main drivers of Putin's personal ambitions with Ukraine appear to be his colonialistic desire to rebuild the Soviet state and to continue Russia's rule as a petrol state, both of which make Ukraine a particularly important target for him. A buffer to NATO is also a factor.

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re: looking for info on the whole russia-ukraine thing 

@Goldkin i feel like it would probably help if we knew exactly what nato was

i thought it was like, international trade agreements? why does russia care?
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