Christopher Nobody forced any NATO country to join. When the USSR broke up, almost all the satellite countries rushed to join. The guy who drove them away, Joseph Stalin, was long dead but his terrors, an impoverished economy, open air imprisonment,.. left them all with nightmares. Putin expressed support for Stalin as a "strong leader". Then along comes Bylerus. Putin sends in thugs to bash heads until the protests stopped. Countries like Germany, Poland, Latvia... prefer their fully functioning democracy. Look at the living standard in Russia. The median income is considered the poverty level in the US. This is a country with immense resources that lives like a poor cousin.NATO is defensive. Nobody gets spanked who behaves themselves. Putin's complaint is that he can't resurrect its glorious past and reconstruct the great Russian empire. Well why not. Then resurrect the British too. Any Bonapartes out there? Bring on France! And Austria. Hapsburgian Spain! Good grief.

Christopher Nobody forced any NATO country to join. When the USSR broke up, almost all the satellite countries rushed to join. The guy who drove them away, Joseph Stalin, was long dead but his terrors, an impoverished economy, open air imprisonment,.. left them all with nightmares. Putin expressed support for Stalin as a "strong leader". Then along comes Bylerus. Putin sends in thugs to bash heads until the protests stopped. Countries like Germany, Poland, Latvia... prefer their fully functioning democracy. Look at the living standard in Russia. The median income is considered the poverty level in the US. This is a country with immense resources that lives like a poor cousin.NATO is defensive. Nobody gets spanked who behaves themselves. Putin's complaint is that he can't resurrect its glorious past and reconstruct the great Russian empire. Well why not. Then resurrect the British too. Any Bonapartes out there? Bring on France! And Austria. Hapsburgian Spain! Good grief.

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