[amnestynone]

The idea that the Russian were motivated by paranoia is nonsense. They were motivated by ideology and lately by nationalism. The fact that they were some how poor paranoids is nonsense. This is what libs said during the cold war.

[higgmeister]

The idea that the Russian were motivated by paranoia is nonsense.

I agree completely.

The idea that they have always been slighted by European metropolitan elites creates a driving motivation to not let it continue over and over again.   This is human nature.

After the fall of the Soviet Union only thirty years ago, why do you and others feel the need to destroy Russia all over again?   Shouldn't once have been enough?

To slow your unhinged retort, consider that NATO was created by winners of WWII to thwart the spread of Communism from the Soviet Union.   Our side won the Cold War.   Russians were starving in the aftermath.   I applauded the people marching in the streets behind Boris Yeltsin.   I was proud they had shrugged off the Iron Chains of Communist tyranny.

But that wasn't the end of it. NATO had to expand and grow mighty!   We destroyed their country but powers that be apparently needed Russia to be under NATO's boot.   This is insanity.