Russia believes that America wants to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on Russia. The ABMs in Ukraine and elsewhere would be used to mop up any nuclear assets not destroyed in the initial strike. ABM sites can also hold nuclear weapons. Nuclear missiles that close to Russia are also unacceptable to them. Keep pushing and they will launch nuclear strikes on us. Don't fuck with Russia.
NATO in the Ukraine is a red line.
Russia believes that America wants to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on Russia. The ABMs in Ukraine and elsewhere would be used to mop up any nuclear assets not destroyed in the initial strike. ABM sites can also hold nuclear weapons. Nuclear missiles that close to Russia are also unacceptable to them. Keep pushing and they will launch nuclear strikes on us. Don't fuck with Russia.
No, Russia doesn't actually believe that. Putin just wants the Iron Curtain back, and NATO is getting in his way.
You believe that for no factual reason.
Prove it. Thanks.