I'm not sure who would say that it was to 'stop NATO aggression', but it's not hard to imagine it as a some kind of response to NATO's continued expansion around them.

NATO hasn't been in any direct operations against Russia but they have been involved in the ME where they have been active.

I think of it a lot in the same way as the US's pacific ocean and Caribbean territorial expansion and involvement in central america as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and Soviet posturing.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think of it a lot in the same way as the US’s pacific ocean and Caribbean territorial expansion and involvement in central america as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and Soviet posturing.

The "Cuban" missile crisis was started by USA putting nukes in Turkey.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago

yup.

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt the US involved in SA long before the CMC?

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Well yea, the US has had imperial ambitions since its founding, but they definitely doubled down when their primary adversary set up camp in their backyard