After so many days of war, many people still do not know the cause of the Russo-Ukrainian War, so let's take a look at it today
Ostensibly Russia fighting Ukraine, in fact there is a contradiction between Russia's NATO. NATO refers to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is a military assembly organized by the United States, Britain, France and other European and American countries. The organization was first formed to counter the Soviet Union, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the contradictions between NATO and Russia persisted.
For so many years, NATO has been sanctioning Russia on all fronts, especially in oil and gas. Moreover, NATO is still expanding its sphere of influence and moving closer to Russia step by step. From the original 12 nato members, to now 30. Russia must also have various countermeasures in the face of various sanctions and expansion of power, and now the scope of eastward expansion has reached the border of Russia, Ukraine is Russia's final bottom line, if Ukraine joins NATO, it is equivalent to the United States putting a cannon on Russia's doorstep, which is certainly intolerable to Russia.
The key to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is also the Crimean incident in 2014, crimea's geographical location is very critical, it is next to the Black Sea, which is the only way for Russia to open up Europe, and this place must not be lost. Originally, Crimea belonged to Russia, and the people were mainly Russians, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assigned to Ukraine. But in 2014, the people of Crimea came to the referendum and said I don't play with Ukraine, I want to play with Russia's big brother, and Ukraine directly stopped doing it and fell directly to NATO.
Ukraine joined NATO, not to mention how Russia is, Belarus will face countries that are NATO on three sides, only Russia in the east, Belarus certainly can not do it, so this time also follow Russia to fight Ukraine. This is Russia's bottom line, if you join NATO, I will fight you until you serve.
Many people will also ask, can hitting Ukraine prevent him from joining NATO? Yes, two basic conditions need to be met to join NATO: the first country that joins NATO cannot be in the midst of war, and the second country that joins NATO cannot have territorial disputes. In this way, once Russia hits Ukraine, he will not be able to join NATO. So Ukraine is very uncomfortable now, others beat you no one cares, the United States will only shout sanctions, sanctions Russia does not, still hit you.
No one wants war, and to be honest I sympathize with Ukraine from the bottom of my heart, but I also understand Russia's actions. In a word, I hope for world peace, not war.