Nations bordering Russia hate them is the reason why they dream...

Nations bordering Russia hate them is the reason why they dream of joining NATO and Putin call it NATO expansion. If Putin can offer alternative solutions to free-market democracy, none of these would have happened. All Putin does is bribing or muscling the neighbors to enslave them. He has being doing that for over two decades and holding the west by blackmailing them nukes and thanks to Ukraine, the west is waking up. Once Russia get defeated in Ukraine, nothing will stop these nations get away from Russian iron grip and disadvantaged regions within Russian federation going their own way.