[KC_Lion]

Whatever gave you that idea?

http://youtu.be/D4x_OmqGs40?t=12m5s

[Secret Agent Man]

Must. Have. Buffer. Zone.

Really it was just attemptign to export a political ideology that these places would have never accepted voluntarily.

[goldstategop]

Russians feel the West has never treated them as an equal and has always sought to contain them.

For Russians, the West’s disrespect, threats, bullying and sanctions amount to a demand that Russia conform to the West’s interests.

That is what Russians will never do. State sovereignty is new to them and they value their independence, sense of self and national pride more than Europe and the US.

The current Western approach is doomed to fail.

[ansel12]

What Putin misses is empire and power.

Before Reagan liberated the oppressed, Russia had control of vast military assets and other countries militaries.

[Nifster]

It isn’t rocket science....He LOVES the Soviet Union because he is, was, and always will be KGB