re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Why should Russia stop them from fighting? I'm genuinely curious why it is in their interests

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Both are CSTO (Russia's version of NATO) members. It would be like if Slovakia and the Czech Republic started shooting at each other. Russia is supposed to be bound by treaty to mediate. Also if one or both of the dictators of those countries falls then that creates a power vacuum and instability in a muslim nation that is in the CSTO and CIS and therefore very easy to have citizens to get into Russia. I am sure that Russia is very interested in keeping its puppet dictators in power and stable in both of those countries which border Afghanistan where ISIS is making a comeback. The last thing Russia or the world in general needs is more unstable muslim nations to provide ISIS and other Islamic extremists a place to expand.