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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Can you expand on this? I can't find much about what you're talking about
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Ok, I am just explaining opinion, doesn't mean I support it.
Check out NATO expanding to the east after the fall of the USSR. The perception in Russia is that US is trying to take eastern countries out of Russian hemisphere and basically surround Russia with pro-NATO or simply NATO countries with internation to put NATO troops and NATO rockets right at our borders.
This is particularly stressed by the feel that the new government is anything, but democratic. Their first law was to ban Russian language as second official language in Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine. It is sort of like Canada.would ban.French in Quebec. Doesn't sound too democratic. They also let local billionaires to take head of regions states, which was fast labeled as oligarchy. This further emphasize the point that the coup is not about bringing democracy, but rather about bringing Ukraine more into NATO with long-term goal to put NATO forces right at Russian borders.