“We’re not poking the bear - they’re poking the free world.”
And you are ignoring everything that has happened in the last several years, like Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, the attempted attack on Syria, and the US destabilization of Ukraine.
Are you really that stupid?
Gotta love the platitudes, eh?
Russia's will to empire seems to blind its adherents to the obvious, that annexing a foreign country is not the same as influencing that foreign country.