I see what you are saying but it’s not unusual for powerful countries to not allow smaller countries around them to align with foreign powers. For example America has the Monroe Doctrine. Any country in North or South America tries to align with a European or Asian power America goes to war.
He said both. Over and over again.
To be fair Russia had been screaming for 8 years that if America didn’t stop messing around in Ukraine that it would force them to go to war. Wasn’t like they just one day woke up and decided to invade for no reason.
I mean he did win the popular vote. So he united more people than Kamala. Just being real about the situation.
Russia has invaded through Ukraine by both the French and the Germans to devastating effect. Ukraine is a more sensitive situation. The Baltic states can be cut off in a day between Kaliningrad and Belarussia. It would also be very difficult not impossible to invade through Scandinavia. Ukraine being a part of an every expanding NATO is a reasonable concern for Russia especially when NATO is led by the largest war country in the world.