.If Ukraine joins the EU, Putin knows Russia is finished.
Ukraine has been unnecessarily belligerent and has a lesson coming.
Russia, a democratic, Christian, Caucasian country like us ,should and wants to be our partner, and for the last 25 years has worked to y\that end.
We need then like the free world needed Stalin in WW2, if we hope to save western culture from Islamist ideology domination.
The countries around Russia fall over themselves joining NATO because they have a history of being invaded by the USSR. Now that we see Ukraine facing an occupation of its territory by unidentified war criminals, and an invasion force along its border, we understand why NATO expanded like it did, and wish NATO membership for the independent Ukraine as well.
That Russia views itself as being encroached upon is true, but the world is not built on Russia’s sentiments. That is another thing this crisis showed: that by and large the Russian population has not repented of its Soviet past. They still see the other countries as either aggressors, or buffer zones, or possessions.
The present Kremlin leadership did everything possible to make RF politically isolated and militarily encircled. What they need is a maidan on Red Square.
“We need then like the free world needed Stalin in WW2”
Exactly: not at all.