Putin uses Nato expansion as a pretext for invading Ukraine, but EU membership and democratic elections are the real threat. A dictatorship with a poor standard of living cannot survive if its neighbours are prosperous democracies with free and fair elections.
East Germans started kicking up a fuss when they saw West German tv and realised their “Worker’s Paradise” was anything but.
Putin can't have his serfs getting uppity.
Putin uses Nato expansion as a pretext for invading Ukraine, but EU membership and democratic elections are the real threat. A dictatorship with a poor standard of living cannot survive if its neighbours are prosperous democracies with free and fair elections.