Iran's supreme leader backs Moscow's illegal invasion of Ukraine, ignoring Russia’s military seizure of Crimea and spinning a NATO war threat that never existed. UkraineRussianWar
it had “proved to be ineffective in guaranteeing Ukraine's security and protecting the country from external aggression and pressure.”
In June 2017, Ukraine’s parliament passed additional legislation “reinstating membership in NATO as a strategic foreign and security policy objective.”a National Security Strategy in September 2020 that provided for the development of a “distinctive partnership with NATO with the aim of membership in NATO.”
NATO also began deploying, “on a rotating basis, relatively small multinational battle groups in the Baltic states and Poland,”a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think-tank in Washington, D.C. Volker said allies sought to prevent NATO from taking action to “avoid ‘escalating’ the crisis.” That, Volker argued, would embolden Putin, who viewed the acquisition of territory as permanent.
Volker said that NATO deterrence was necessary "to prevent further Russian incursions into Ukraine and other areas of Eastern Europe." In a speech last month, Putin compared himself to the Russian Tsar Peter the Great, “equating Russia's invasion of Ukraine today with Peter's expansionist wars some three centuries ago and making his strongest acknowledgment yet that his own war is a land grab,”In July 2021, Putin gave a speech in which he called modern Ukraine the brainchild of the Soviets, adding: “I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia.
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