[1rudeboy]

One of the most amusing aspects of these threads, specifically Ukraine/Georgia, is the insistence that despite the Russians behaving the same way that they have always behaved (i.e., invading and occupying small countries), people on the Western side of the equation need to break out of the "Cold War mindset."

[RaveOn]

If you’re talking about Georgia in 2008, they clearly provoked the Russian Federation into an armed response, and the resulting “invasion & occupation” lasted all of a fortnight, until the situation calmed down.

You’ll have to come up with some better examples to convince me the modern Russians have imperialist ambitions.