When the Soviet Union broke up we and the European Union promised not to move to bring the former Eastern block nations into our spheres of influence.
To leave them as a buffer zone.
I don’t give a crap about any of the sh!theads who want to go to war about what Russia is doing now, since those agreements have been breached.
And it doesn’t matter one damned bit whether the sh!theads in question are European governments, former eastern block nations, or posters on some forum. March your happy @sses over there.
Wait a minute.
I’d give a pass to former eastern block nations.
They know what it’s like to be under Russian domination. If they don’t want that, they have every right to seek out the arms and alliances to prevent that.
I agree that if NATO or the EU promised Russia they wouldn’t move the Eastern nations under their umbrella... They shouldn’t.
However, national sovereignty allows a nation, even ones who formally belong to the Warsaw Pact, to decide their own foreign policy. They might get bit by the bear if they poke, but they do not owe him perpetual ass kissing.