[Cronos]

While I think your point is somewhat valid, didn't you mean Germany?

Not exactly -- Russia claims Poland should join up with it as Slavic brothers. The Poles don't want to. However, an obscure piece of information -- after WWI when Russia was still fighting, the Polish generals tried to grab huge chunks of Russian territory, kind of leading further to the animosity between them

[broadsword]

...after WWI when Russia was still fighting, the Polish generals tried to grab huge chunks of Russian territory...

Nonsense. Russia coldly betrayed Poland during and after the seige of Warsaw and then attacked them after the war. Poland was in absolutely no condition to attack anybody.

Who fed you that Russian commie propaganda?

[DoughtyOne]

When Germany entered Poland in WWII, that's the claim of motherland consolidation that I was mentioning. Russia probably had the same claim, but I'd not heard it in the Motherland terms you probably have.

We're probably in agreement on China pretty much. I don't think either of us thinks the Mainland is too worried about an invasion any time soon. I don't think Taiwan has threatened that type of action in many moons.