Russia Ukraine war, page-222606

Has it occurred to you that making mistakes and blunders like the USA and NATO undoubtedly have, does not mean that they did not understand that they were threatening Russia's security by inviting Georgia and Ukraine to complete NATO's encirclement of Russia. Putin told them in 2008 dont do this we will respond. Burns, the current CIA chief told them, don't do this, Russia will respond. They knew exactly what was at stake and went ahead anyway because their sense of superiority and Russophobia led them to believe that Putin's appeasement of them since 2008 equaled weakness because they knew that in similar circumstances they would have immediately launched war if Russia joined an alliance with Mexico and put its armies, and nuclear weapons and military biolabs there.