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In reply to the discussion: This may upset some DUers but after Iraq it's hard to watch the same hacks talking [View all]Xolodno
(6,383 posts)"Is NATO, US, Ukraine a threat to invade Russia?"
To many here, the answer is "no" and its preposterous to think so. But that isn't objective thinking.
To the Russian mindset, the answer is a resounding "Hell yes they are a threat!".
From the major wars of the Mongol hordes, Swedish War, Ottoman Empire, Napoleon and Nazi Germany to comments made by Churchill, Patton, etc. to minor infractions such as aiding the Whites, etc.
Of course one could say, those are now in the distant past. Yes, but the Revolutionary War here barely gets a paragraph in British history books while the aforementioned gets a lot of attention in Russia. Bush and Cheney went nuts on enlarging NATO, how do you think that looks to a people who are strongly paranoid about another invader?