Anyone who still claims that NATO “provoked” russia to attack...
Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦@rshereme
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Jul 07, 2025
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Anyone who still claims that NATO “provoked” russia to attack Ukraine is either brainwashed or ignorant.
First, in the last 350 years, russia has waged 24 wars against Ukraine. I presume all of them were provoked by NATO, even though NATO didn’t even exist then.
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First, in the last 350 years, russia has waged 24 wars against Ukraine. I presume all of them were provoked by NATO, even though NATO didn’t even exist then.
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2/ The main reason russia attacked Ukraine is russian imperialism, grounded in russian genocidal culture.
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3/ Second, a simple look at cause and effect shows the opposite: it wasn’t NATO that “provoked” russian aggression, but it was russia’s aggression that pushed Ukraine towards NATO.
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4/ Before 2013, only about 20–30% of Ukrainians supported joining NATO. After russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, support jumped to over 50%. And today, after the full-scale invasion, nearly 90% of Ukrainians want NATO membership.
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5/ The same pattern played out in Northern Europe: russia’s aggression forced historically neutral Sweden and Finland to join NATO. In fact, russia has done more to strengthen and expand NATO than any Western policy ever could.