[pierrem15]

Neither NATO nor the US have been any threat to Russia. Putin would have to worry only if we lined up a couple of million men for Barbarossa II. And the likelihood of that is just about zero with 30 members in NATO.

The constant yammering about Russia's "fears" is baloney. In the past 250 years Russia has had two serious invasions from the West. In the same interval it has attacked its neighbors in Eastern Europe and around the Black and Baltic Seas at least 25 times.

[Captain Walker]

Neither NATO nor the US have been any threat to Russia. Putin would have to worry only if we lined up a couple of million men for Barbarossa II.

That would be too late; Putin has to worry before then.

I think you're either naïve or here with an agenda; there is no reason for NATO to have grown that close to Russia.

(If the Russian military was training the military of Puerto Rico, we both know that America would be running about and looking for the nearest shoulder to cry on.)