Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5265435" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>America isn't invading its neighbors.  The countries around Russia have a lot to fear.  That's why there's a NATO.  The Soviet Union was determined to export communism to the entire world.  And since the break up Russia has not only invaded neighbors but Putin called the collapse of the Soviet Union the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th Century.  He didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO.  He invaded it because of all the former Soviet republics Ukraine is considered not only the prize but also its capital Kiev was the capital of the first Russian empire.  Putin is a nationalist.</p></blockquote><p></p>