Historisk set har Rusland været en aggressor, og har startet masse af konflikter. Dem, der har levet under russisk besættelse kender den russiske mentalitet, og tag ikke fejl, det er brutalt. Putin er en diktator. <Belive him at your own peril.>
       1. 1904–1905 – Japan (Russo-Japanese War)
2.1918–1920 – Finland (Russian Civil War)
3.1918–1921 – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (Soviet attempts to regain control after WWI)
4.1921 – Georgia (Soviet invasion and annexation)
5.1929 – China (Sino-Soviet conflict over Manchuria)
6.1939 – Poland (Joint invasion with Nazi Germany)
7.1939–1940 – Finland (Winter War)
8.1940 – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Soviet annexation)
9.1941–1944 – Various Eastern European countries (As part of WWII, Soviet counteroffensive)
10.1944–1945 – Germany (Soviet invasion of Nazi-controlled territory)
11.1956 – Hungary (Soviet intervention to crush the Hungarian Revolution)
12.1968 – Czechoslovakia (Crushing of the Prague Spring)
13.1979–1989 – Afghanistan (Soviet-Afghan War)
14.1991–1992 – Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts)
15.1994–1996, 1999–2009 – Chechnya (Internal but with large-scale military action)
16.2008 – Georgia (Russo-Georgian War, occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia)
17.2014 – Ukraine (Annexation of Crimea, beginning of Donbas conflict)
18.2022 – Ukraine (Full-scale invasion)