Russia is an imperialist nation and has been for the past 1,000 years. It spans nine time zones and has more land than any other country on earth. Their neighbors have a good reason to be afraid of the hungry Bear.
Poor little Russians, they talk as if everyone is picking on them! Really, all they want is one more buffer state to isolate them from those nasty Baltic states. /sarcasm
All these tiny countries, picking on the Russians. I guess to be conservative on FR means that you must rush here to tell the rest of us that Putin means no harm.