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In reply to the discussion: This may upset some DUers but after Iraq it's hard to watch the same hacks talking [View all]dwayneb
(819 posts)I'm a little baffled by this argument that the US and NATO are the aggressors here. I am certain that is the propaganda being distributed in Moscow.
Do not kid yourself. Russia is an expansionist state, they have not changed their colors one bit from the good old days on the USSR when they were pulling the strings of the totalitarian puppets in most of the countries in Eastern Europe.
The threat that NATO poses to Putin is not that they will invade him, but they will prevent him from acquiring control in those countries and to reestablish the empire. He already has Belarus, and Georgia more or less. Soon he will have Ukraine, the greatest prize in Eastern Europe.
Putin has little to lose. The sanctions being discussed will be no more than a minor annoyance, particularly now that he has some nod-nod, wink-wink agreement with China.