Deadstick
Platinum Member
It's the leaders of those Countries, they think they are on the winning side by joining Nato, which is just a foreign legion for the US Reich, some of them made the same mistake when they joined up with the Nazis, that's what we see now in Ukraine, all the Regime in Ukraine had to do was stick to Minsk 2 and rule out joining Nato, but there was another agenda at work.Yeah, I know about this line of reasoning, and it has some ground. Russia 'shouldn't ' tolerate that and it made steps to thwart that. How successful they were, the time will show.
But I like this way of reasoning 'It is not NATO expanding to the East, it is the East joining NATO'. A dozen countries from Estonia in the north to Bulgaria on the south joined the bloc voluntarily. That was their conscious and sovereign choice. Somehow, the history shows that once a nation was in Russian sphere, it doesn't want anymore to get back into that. Strange, eh.
There was the time when the US had to cope with a pro-Soviet hostile regime in Cuba with military bases there. The Putin regime should learn how to cope with a 'hostile regime' in Ukraine. (It may not happen this way, of course. It is just my wishful thinking).