What exactly are the disputes in the history of Russia and Ukraine? Why Russia is reluctant to let Ukraine join NATO

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The situation in Ukraine is getting worse and worse every day, the Russian army has begun to move, in the end how it will end, we do not know, we will wait and see.

But before he could do so, Putin gave an hour-long televised speech in which he completely reviewed the past hundred years of history, trying to explain one thing, why Ukraine is so important to Russia, it is not a simple neighboring relationship.

If Ukraine has not intersected with Russia in history, and everyone is a clean and innocent country, then today Russia is going to do these things, you are an act of aggression.

But in Putin's view, Ukraine once had a 300-year history of merging with Russia, which is a fraternal country with broken bones and tendons, and today, such a country is going to turn against Russia under the deception of outsiders, so for its own security, Russia is forced to do something.

Moreover, in fact, in this speech that lasted more than an hour, Putin also revealed an emotion, which we interpret as a rather aggrieved emotion, which has been lingering in Russia for more than 30 years, and this emotion is directed at the United States.

In his speech, Putin made it clear that after he was elected president of Russia in 2000, he had a conversation with US President Clinton, in which Putin said that it was possible for us to join NATO.

Sometimes not answering is also an answer, Clinton said to him, that is, the Western world does not want to include Russia, in fact, for the past 30 years Russia has always had such an emotion towards the United States.

More than 30 years ago, on December 25, 1991, the day of Christmas in the West, the Soviet Union, the behemoth, collapsed, for the entire Western world, this is a huge victory for them, the Americans themselves did not expect that the old opponents who had struggled for decades, how could the fortress suddenly collapse from within?

The Americans later became complacent and thought that this was because of the unprecedented victory of their system, of course, for the newborn Russia, they were satisfied with the United States at that time, and many Russians felt that after the struggle of the Second World War for decades, the Soviet Union finally disintegrated, which shows that it may be that our system is really not good, it is really not as good as the United States.

So now that we've failed, and countries so big as ours have collapsed, including the Warsaw Pact, we had the military power to wipe out all of Europe, and then we withdrew ourselves.

When the two Germanys were merged, the Soviet army was stationed in the GDR, the people did not move, not a single shot was withdrawn to the Soviet Union, and the Russians at that time felt that it might not really work for our system.

So since it can't work, then the beating must be upright, we admit it, we disintegrate, from now on we surrender completely, we throw ourselves into the arms of the United States, and then everyone can coexist peacefully, okay? And then the Americans you teach me well, you give me some aid, I come according to your system, and I grow into a new country, okay?

After all, in World War II, Germany killed so many people and Japan created so many sins, what was the attitude of the United States toward Japan and Germany later? Having adopted them as his little brothers, Marshall planned to save Germany, and MacArthur transferred millions of pounds of grain from the United States to the Japanese people, and later Japan and Germany grew into staunch allies of the United States.

Therefore, Russia at that time also felt that as long as I surrendered, as long as I surrendered, you and the United States will regard me as their own person from now on, you and the United States can support me like Germany and Japan, and even the military issue does not need to be considered, there is no war, because I have completely surrendered.

Yes, when the two Germanys were merged, the Western world made a commitment to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union made it very clear that we were confronted by the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the Federal Republic of Germany, you were an important member of NATO, and our GDR was an important member of our Warsaw Pact.

In such a state, the military strength of our Soviet Union has suffered losses, so the Americans have made a guarantee that you can rest assured that the two Germanys have merged, NATO will resolutely not expand eastward, and even NATO will slowly remove its military functions in the future.

The result? According to Putin, nato has expanded eastward five times in the past 30 years, and more critically, in the past 30 years, Russians have slowly recognized the reality that the United States seems to never be able to truly accept Russia.

It is impossible for the United States to truly incorporate Russia into its own little brother as it did with Japan and Germany, and the current situation is that Russia itself wants to surrender, and no one in the United States wants it.

Not only did Putin mention it in 2000, but according to the information now available, Putin later consulted with the US president at least three or four times to say whether it was possible for Russia to join NATO.

Hasn't NATO always wanted to expand eastward? Isn't it over for you to expand to me? We've become a big group, isn't it a problem? Yet the United States refuses every time, why? Probably for the United States, Russia is too big.

You think, although Russia has suffered the collapse of the Soviet Union in recent years, it still has more than 17 million square kilometers of land, it still has thousands of nuclear warheads, and its conventional strength is not weak.

In such a state, the United States believes that Russia is just a tiger that is snoozing, unlike Germany and Japan, which is completely disarmed, and Germany and Japan are proper little brothers.

And Russia has a large population and strong military strength, so how can you absorb such a big country into it? Lao Mei has two considerations, many of the diplomatic means of Lao Mei were born from Britain, when Britain as an island country, he wanted to pursue the balance of the mainland.

You must not unify, you must not give birth to a particularly powerful country, and finally annex me.

For the United States, he also has such an idea, more critical is that we open the world map, the largest piece is Eurasia, Eurasia has a long history, a large population, a vast territory, to be honest compared to Eurasia, the United States is really a corner of the country.

The United States has geopolitical advantages, he crosses two oceans, others generally can't beat him, but he also has disadvantages, when the entire Eurasian continent is very united without war, the United States is actually a horned existence, so the foreign policy of the United States is to lead Europe, maintain Europe's current military, and even engage in an imaginary enemy.

Unfortunately, this imaginary enemy fell on Russia, because Russia is too powerful to help you integrate into NATO, and once it is incorporated, I am afraid that I will not be able to control it myself.

And what if this tiger, after taking a nap, wakes up? Therefore, what the United States first pursued was whether it could break the current Russia into seven or eight pieces.

In fact, in the Yeltsin era, the United States almost did it, and then Putin came to power as a political strongman, and the United States slowly discovered that it was unlikely to dismember Russia again, so the United States turned to the pursuit of establishing Russia as an imaginary enemy, and then continuously expanded NATO eastward, expanded eastward to Russia's side, and slowly encroached on it, which is Putin's distress.

The Russians originally thought that 30 years ago we all self-destructed the Great Wall, we have abolished our martial arts, when we really want to fight, when the former Soviet Union was militarily strong, I did not fight, why should I fight now? Russia naively thinks that as long as I break up my big country and become less threatening, then the United States can sincerely accept them.

However, it is clear that this is not the case, so there is such an embarrassing situation, on the one hand, the United States continues to demand NATO to expand eastward, the past 30 years have expanded eastward 5 times, the three Baltic countries have taken the past, the traditional countries in Eastern Europe have taken the past, and even Ukraine is actively planning whether to join NATO, almost to take half of the former Soviet Union republics.

On the other hand, when Russia sneaks down to talk to the United States and says that you just do this, let's play a big game, you wrap me up, I sincerely give you a little brother, you just need to give me two dates, help me recover the economy.

However, the United States does not intervene, the United States in the face of Russia thrown out the olive branch is not connected at all, which led to putin as the representative of a generation of Russians feel very wronged, when we were such a strong and powerful empire, and the United States for decades, and finally we realized the disadvantages of the system, and then we broke up this big empire ourselves.

You also said at that time that you would give me a lot of financial assistance, and you also said that after that everyone is a friend and not an enemy, NATO cannot expand eastward, you promised me, and as a result, you continued to push me to the edge.

Even some people in the United States have come forward to say that the commitment made by the United States was to the Soviet Union, not to Russia, and that the Soviet Union no longer exists, so the United States does not have any commitment to Russia, and what the United States pursues is the continuous eastward expansion of NATO and the encroachment on Russia's power space.

Even in recent years, the United States has provoked Belarus and instigated chaos within Kazakhstan, and the United States hopes to continue to encroach on it, and finally the living space of Russia is getting smaller and smaller.

On the one hand, he has established an imaginary enemy, he can continue to exist on the European continent, he can tie the main European countries led by Germany to his chariot, while on the other hand, Russia's living space is getting smaller and smaller, and it is possible that one day it will change internally and then be dismantled.

Maybe by then, the United States will approve Russia's accession to NATO, but not as a unified country, but only as seven or eight smaller countries, so that the entire Continent will be more disintegrated.

You think, the United States has been doing this since the beginning of World War I, and after the end of World War I, then President Wilson of the United States proposed a so-called democratic self-determination.

Originally, there were only a few large empires on the European continent, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey, and Russia, but under the so-called democratic self-determination program of the United States, Europe was dismantled into more than a dozen small countries and several new countries were born.

After the end of the Cold War, Yugoslavia was dismantled into 7 pieces, the former Soviet Union was broken into 15 pieces, and the smaller and more scattered the European countries, the more obviously it was in the interests of the United States.

In this sense, today's Putin finally understands the sinister intentions of the United States, and the promises given by americans in history are unreliable.

Original author: Li Chengwei