More aggressive than whom? Look at what Obama did in N. Africa and Syria. How many FREEPERs know that the US and EU orchestrated the ouster of the elected government of the Ukraine and precipitated the Russian move into eastern Ukraine and the Crimea? Putin has flaws, but he hasn’t been the main destabilizing force in the ME or Ukraine.
I did.
Well, look at it this way: how much (in square miles) has the U.S. expanded in the past couple of decades, versus Russia?