[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

It is not reasonable to claim that anyone who disagrees with you on a debatable proposition is a “pathological liar”.

I wasn't calling you a pathological liar. I was calling the Russians pathological liars, which is true.

They lied about the invasion. They told hundreds of lies in the run up to the invasion. They lied during the invasion and after the invasion. And all that's just recent. They've been lying to us systematically for decades from everything to missile defenses to their support of Iran's Mullahs.

And no, there is objectively no threat to Russia from any NATO country. It is a defensive alliance. If not, please point out what nukes Estonia or any of the Baltic countries have, or what anti-missile system they possess that would save them from a Russian nuclear strike, or what military capability any of them have, or what permanent NATO forces are stationed there that are capable of invading Russia.

[cgbg]

The Russian view is much more nuanced than you are presenting here.

They view the current clowns in DC as dangerous and demented.

Kamala Harris went to Germany in late February and said that “we would have no objection” if the Ukraine entered NATO.

That was waving a red flag at a bull—and the bull charged.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.