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13454355, Post 8 was a good explanation on this. To summarize
Posted by soulfunk, Thu Feb-24-22 09:21 AM
Russia doesn't just want to stop at not letting the Ukraine in. They want NATO to drastically decrease membership to bring it back to pre-1990 size:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/History_of_NATO_enlargement.svg/1095px-History_of_NATO_enlargement.svg.png
If NATO let Russia dictate Ukraine not joining it sets precedence for Russia's argument of control over who can and can't be part of NATO. Russia's next step would be not acknowledging the Baltic states as part of NATO (or to that point, their independence as nations at all) and then you have a MUCH, MUCH bigger problem.
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