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2025-02-19 22:50:41 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 66DF3F13EBD6383330950B2056467A96761B6BDC1E51B8D9B7337C47D3D9E6D3
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The war was not unprovoked. US and NATO’s refusal to confirm Ukraine would not join NATO combined with continued eastward expansion of NATO and Ukraine holding military drills with US and NATO troops along the Russian-Ukraine border precipitated Putin’s attack. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/opinion/putin-ukraine-nato.html https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-follows-decades-of-warnings-that-nato-expansion-into-eastern-europe-could-provoke-russia-177999 https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-holds-military-drills-with-us-forces-nato-allies-2021-09-20/
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