Can you really blame Putin for invading Ukraine?

In the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO expanded eastward as former Soviet republics joined the Alliance.  What were once Soviet comrades now hosted Western troops and missile systems.  How could Russia see this as anything but a threat?  Is this not analogous to when Soviet missiles were deployed in Cuba in 1962?  What would the US do today if Mexico aligned with Russia?  Would America sit idle or take some meaningful action to protect its security? Now that the United States is involved in this conflict, we all should support and seek a conclusion to this terrible bloodshed in Ukraine.

In this episode, Morty Davis and his audience discuss the geopolitical underpinnings of the events leading up to Putin's invasion of Ukraine and how we might have avoided such a catastrophic military action which launching threatened to uncontrollably expand into World War III and harrowing exposure to nuclear attacks on NATO and the US.