It is impossible to not mention the context in which hostilities between Ukraine and Russia and NATO (partially) began. As most everyone knows by now, NATO pursued a policy of expanding further and further into FSU territory all while openly advocating for regime change in Moscow, Kiev, Minsk and other countries. A low-scale civil war was already smoldering on in the Donbass for 8 years at that point as well. By the time that Zelensky came out and started openly talking about the possibility of Kiev acquiring nukes, the stage had already well and truly been set for a showdown with Russia in one form or another.
Still, many analysts, myself included, were taken by surprise by the launch of the special military operation. This, in itself, should not be surprising considering the fact that many top Kremlin officials themselves appear to have been kept in the dark about the operation. And, actually, we don’t really know what the true reason for the SMO was, to this day.
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