6 reasons why Russia won't occupy Ukraine
In only few months a full scale panic about Russia invading Ukraine has been sold to the Western media. There will be all kinds of threatening gestures and special military operations, but Russia will not occupy Ukraine. What does Putin want? A security framework in Europe favorable to Russia based on pre-1997 conditions, in which NATO agrees to cease all expansion and Ukraine remains well disposed to Moscow. 1- Putin wants respect and treatment as a peer. He wants to expand the buffer between NATO and the European Union through Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. He is applying intimidation to coerce Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accommodate Russian demands to cease its western impulses to join NATO that almost certainly never will occur. Read more: The 11 reasons why America supports Israel 2- Moscow is only a six-hour drive up highway from Ukraine’s northern border. NATO has been alert enough to Russian sensitivity on this topic not to invite Ukraine to join, but the pros