[Svartalfiar]

And all for no reason except our Military Industrial Complex likes to sell lots of weapons. Russia has not been a threat at all since the end of the USSR.

That, and we have historical cultural ties to these countries, we trade with them, they want the threat of us to help protect them.

Russia may not be a threat to these US, but they're a regional warmonger that's invaded several former Soviet States and threatened military action against quite a few other countries. Their military may be a shell of it's former shell, but everyone in Europe's is crap too. All of them depend too much on us to save them from anything. Russia can barely invade neighbors on her border, but the risk is there and no one in Europe could push into Russia to force a surrender either.

[Kentfromohio]

We have initiated far more wars than Russia in the past 3 decades. And none of them were in our neighborhood. All way off in other people’s backyards deposing leaders covertly or using raw military power to impose “democracy” where they don’t want it. And meanwhile, we have no border, no money and our own government attacks its own citizens if they are white, or patriotic. We have no moral right to criticize any other country at this point.