I don’t doubt Putin wants to get his greasy hands on every country that “enjoyed” the warm embrace of the Soviet Union Bear however he has to sell his expansionist plans to his people under the sheepskin threat from foreign powers who wish to use the Ukraine as a pawn in their anti Russian schemes.
The old Russian dolls within a doll within a doll propaganda.
Kinda like how we frame every war we fought since WWI as a “threat to democracy, baseball, motherhood and apple pie”
We all play this global chess game and get burned. One day very badly.
I wouldn’t disagree. Look how late we joined the Second
World War. It takes a lot to get folks on board. In the
end it cost a tons more money to fight the battles > IMO.
You’ve given up so much ground at no cost, but then the
bill comes due.