Your completely full of crap. Putin has had the opportunity for 30 years, nothing.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: Latvia has lost its sovereignty because of NATO and Washington"Latvia lost its economic, military and humanitarian sovereignty when it agreed to deploy US and NATO troops on its territory, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"If the Latvian Foreign Ministry appreciates the meaning of freedom, it would not encourage the deployment of foreign military units on its territory," Zakharova was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency.