What is in the Ukraine that Russia wants???????

This is all about fossil fuels and manipulation of markets which Putin has been doing extremely well.

Saying it's about NATO is a smokescreen. He knows exactly what he is doing.

Thank God we have you to read Putin's mind.

Russia has no natural borders.

it’s history and national character is defined in many ways by this reality. Hordes and armies from east and west have taught them a lesson: you need lots of land mass to protect the motherland.

The loss of Eastern Europe as a buffer against the west was both a deep humiliation and also loss of security. Russia is at the end of the day an insecure nation.

Putin, who he is as a Russian, former KGB agent in east Germany, and president, is propelled by internal psychic forces to try to retake the most lands of the Soviet empire.

They want Chernobyl back. It is quite the tourism destination nowadays.

There is a lot of bullion and other riches in Ukraine.

Yeah, and I knew there were no WMD's in Iraq by reading Saddam's mind. Totally.

Read your own mind and you might remember the US government and corporate media are liars, especially when they're freaking out.

So explain it then, guru.

OMG. Appears the letsrun insiders/volunteers are spewing anti-Asian, anti-Semitic hate.

Um, no. This is actually what the world is witnessing outside of the USA . You have lost the ability to think, and everything to you is anti-semitic hate .

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If you don't want to lose your land stop starting wars with your betters.

There was no "Palestine" prior to the zionist movement.

And NATO said they would not expand east of Germany in 1990 .

Was Hitler and Herzl like Trump and Putin?

Ukraine has taken it in the a$$ from Ru$$ia for hundreds of years, and not pleasantly.

None of that Rimming when it comes to your Russian yoke. Before the Russians it was the Tatars, the Turks, the Mongols. It's a wide, expansive, rich agricultural landscape.

Think USA's Monroe Doctrine which keeps Mexico in a complete co-dependency. Now you have Russia's need for a scapegoat to pile bodies of its own native sons upon.

That question is breathtakingly ignorant...

You clearly don't actually know anything about any of them.

Putin is nuts. But this is spot on. We lost our sh*% when Cuba was in play, understandably. Russia doesnt have an ocean between it and all its Nato enemies to the west. Ukrain directly borders it. He could be forgiven for caring what happens there. But yes he is nuts.

Putin backed down. He would have gotten his ass handed to him if WWIII broke out. Now the fool says this about missiles in Europe and keeping Ukraine out of NATO and other ex soviet nations out of NATO.

If I'm Biden and the leaders of the NATO nations, I would just ignore Putin and his stupid idiotic demands and say if he invades any nation, I'll kick your ass.

Don't those sovereign countries you mentioned have the right to associate with and make treaties with whomever they want? They chose NATO.

Now Putin has been threatening to use force to prevent Ukraine from doing the same. There's really no defending that.

Hopefully this was all just a game of chicken and Putin just swerved away.

Russia wants the port of Odessa, the Donbass, and a link between the Donbass and Transnistria, cutting off Ukraine off from the Black Sea and making them entirely dependent on Russia with a possible puppet government.