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Ukraine wanted to join the EU for quite a long time. There's a quote from Putin from years ago saying it's their choice if they do, guess he changed his mind.

People in eastern Europe have been generally keen to join the EU. It's not meddling if a country wants to join your club, I mean are you suggesting the EU just ignores the request?

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The US was the one that doing the meddling primarily, they used the EU as one of the carrots. Victoria Newland famously was recorded saying “fuck the EU”. Germany for example deliberately moved to cut out Ukraine as a transfer country for their gas supply by going for Nordstream 1&2. One reason was that Ukraine tried to use that dependence as leverage on multiple occasions. It is a long and complicated story starting sometime after the collapse of the Soviet Union but in many ways even connected to WW1. I feel sympathy for the Russian and Ukrainian people, that they had consistently some of the worst politicians and rulers imaginable.

Isn’t it amazing how you get down voted for pointing out simple facts? I even had an article submission flagged the other day because the Russiagate crowd can’t handle information that threatens their fragile worldview.

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