• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    But while Ukraine’s leadership has directly pressed for membership since at least 2008

    because of the Russian invasion of Georgia

    Why stop there? Lets argue about the Winter War.

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      4 months ago

      Because the Soviet Union who is not Russia fought the winter war, and Russia’s government signed the Budapest memorandum in 1994.