You don't even realize the legal aberration you're advocating, Azrail.
"Russia has an imperialist past (as if England, France, Spain and Portugal were any different).
So let's encircle the country with a military alliance to prevent any future expansionism."
No judicial system or international law in the world punish citizens or countries for something they might do in the future...
This is an aberration of thought and here you are supporting this absurdity: punishing the country for something it hadn't done when NATO began its expansion.
Russia unilaterally dismantled the Iron Curtain, the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union and what the country got in return?
Vindictiveness, Cold war revanchism and mentality, NATO expansion (instead of dismantlement).
There's nothing more cruel than a person or a country concede defeat, lay down their arms, extend an olive branch to their former enemies and start living in peace minding their own business and get slapped in the face by the West like Russia was.
I read the posts by the other members of the Board and I'm always struck by their lack of compassion, by their callousness towards this tremendous injustice imposed by the West.
I condemn the russian invasion, I support the right of the ukrainian people to fight the russian invaders, but when I see so many people displaying this cruel disregard towards Russia a part of me says:
Russia finally said enough is enough and drew the line.
From now on, the price of joining hostile military alliances is dying like cattle under russian bombs.
