Muristek
I will lay my cards on the table for the Pravda.Ru readership before outlining the opportunities that I as a simple, non-Russian speaking, outside observer believe are left to Russia. I am against Russia's military operation in Ukraine. For all that I sympathize with the Russian government's legitimate concerns over NATO's waves of expansion, to my mind this military operation justifies that very expansion. Next, whereas NATO was previously composed of members that never fully agreed different matters or spent the amounts of money necessary for a proper defence of their countries', as result of this military operation, NATO has become a more unified, effective organisation and committed to higher military spending. This military operation has turned the Russian government's fears of a powerful and very anti-Russian NATO into a reality. Furthermore, the military operation is against a nation that for all its NATO and EU membership ambitions, was never a serious contender for entry to those institutions, and which posed no serious threat to Russia's integrity. Therefore, the subjugation of the Ukrainian people to the various hardships of a military intervention is immoral in the extreme. This is all the more so as in the words of President Putin, Russians and Ukrainians are (now it's were) like brothers.
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