{ "id": "a6435837dbfbb2f0557d9b9169b5b172939f6ed76cc6dd35f5d0f5f3f448a31e", "pubkey": "17538dc2a62769d09443f18c37cbe358fab5bbf981173542aa7c5ff171ed77c4", "created_at": 1747758039, "kind": 9802, "tags": [ [ "r", "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/world/europe/russia-finland-border.html", "source" ], [ "comment", "Intel agency mouthpiece converting wrongthink to uncomfortable, and now speakable words." ] ], "content": "From Moscow’s perspective, the Russians need to bolster their defenses to protect themselves from NATO expansion, which has always been a sore subject. The Baltic nations were the first members of the former Soviet Union to join NATO, bringing large stretches of Russia’s border up against NATO’s. The prospect of Ukraine, an even bigger former Soviet republic, following suit was so threatening to Moscow that it became one of the causes of the most devastating land war in generations.", "sig": "e465766409c841ab6e77c74e8a306cdc6582485c461824e51090c6e63c409dbf90d6b4d539a13fefd1c61aecc97661cc7c3046c374fe33c532fbb748000afab2" }