re: Is Henry Kissinger's reason for Russian invasion of Ukraine wrong?

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NATO expansion isn’t the reason Russia invaded Ukraine. It’s just what excuse they packaged the invasion as to their public.

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Of course it is. It is hard to imagine why anyone is taking the Russian stance so earnestly. Their position is idiotic on its face, yet people repeat it without even thinking. Putin can't exactly say, 'hey this is a land grab because my foreign policy elites are scared of a land invasion from the Eastern European Plain, and thus I need to secure my western frontier using the Carpathian Mountains in order to limit the chances of an invasion.'