[Raf1394]

There is something i really wanted to ask or know about this conflict.

I sometimes try to look at both sides of the story. I don't agree what Russia is doing. But the idea was never to destroy Ukraine like we see today.

Back in 2022 they wanted to launch a fast attack to remove the pro-west Ukrainian government and replace it with a puppet government that supports Russia. That fast attack failed completely, and now they are stuck in a almost three years war. One of the key demands of Putin to end the war is a agreement that Ukraine never joins NATO.
But sometimes i try to see the Russian side of the story. Everybody knows if a country joins NATO, they form a military alliance with NATO. Its possible that in theory, every big nation (for example the US) can put nuclear weapons in that country. If Ukraine joins NATO, everybody know every NATO country can install there nukes or tactical weapons or any kind of military in Ukraine. And Ukraine is right next to Russia. Moscow is in reach.

What i basically want to say, is that Russia feels kinda scared, knowing that thing could happen... They are scared of the NATO expansions towards the east. At the end of the cold war. There was even an agreement that no one would expand there influence. And have a bufferzone. But since then the NATO did expand.


I feel this story looks like a lot like the Cuba Missile Crisis, in 1962.
Cuba wanted to work together with the Soviet Union
(they have the right to do so) The US feels threatened, because the Soviet Union can have nuclear missiles in Cuba, being pointed at the US.
The US also had the Bay of Pigs invasion. the same idea like Russia did towards Ukraine. (not on that same scale) but still.

I feel like all these conflicts are just a big war of influence.

And joining the European Union is not the same thing like joining NATO. A country can still join the EU, but not join the NATO.
That the people in Ukraine want to ally themselves more with the EU, is there democratic right. But suddenly joining NATO gives this weird feeling to the Russians they are thinking things like ''Hmmm you join the EU, okay... But why do you form a military alliance with NATO?''