Or you can look at Russia’s historic mistreatment of its neighbors in the time of the Czars, the Soviets, and now Putin and realize that there is always an excuse for Russia to bully its neighbors. You can look at the mass starvation in Ukraine in 1933. The Katyn Massacre in Poland is something the Russians have never admitted to, like the Japanese and Nanking. Russia’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Russia’s mistreatment of minorities whom they’ve pushed back and forth in relentless series of ethnic cleansing. Putin’s one-state religion (Russian Orthodox kowtowing to Putin’s ukases.) Putin’s state-controlled news media. And somehow the poor, paranoid Russian mentality would have us believe that the NATO and the West are both decadent, weak, and a huge threat to their paranoid fantasies. I’m not buying any of it. Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet empire. You either see that or you don’t. You either are pro-freedom and pro-American or you’re pro-Putin.