▲ | aguaviva 4 days ago | |
No, Putin's decision to launch the full-scale invasion in 2022 is what "got us" the war in Ukraine right now. None of his claimed grievances in regard to the CFE Treaty amount to casus belli, by any rational metric. And they certainly weren't the core of what ultimately moved him to make that decision. They were just another part of his giant smokescreen, basically. As his Deputy Foreign Minister put the matter, quite succinctly:
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