or maybe not really any of the above.
Perhaps having a murderous dictator who openly espouses empire building on your doorstep, logically demands rather than sitting on ones hands until it is too late like they did previously, NATO now continues to strengthening its defensive positions?
Reality is Poots great achievement has been to force large swathes of Europe to demand NATO become a more forceful deterrent to... yep you guessed it... Poots.
Otherwise, how do you explain why all these
ex Soviet republics are lining up, to want
nothing to do with Russia?
Albania, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, not much Russian love there?
And how do you explain Finland and Sweden joining NATO, with the latter having not since the Napoleonic Wars, initiated any direct armed conflict and favouring neutrality?
Of course you know better than all of the above and can explain why there is an absence of countries lining up to ally themselves with Russia due to their fear of a NATO invasion?
Care to point out the democracies saying, please let us join you Mr Poots in a military alliance?
Well its all a Soros lead conspiracy to steal Ukrainian land you say?
But then why is Hungary in on at is well, given it just voted to strengthen NATO?
But, but, but Nth Korea and Iran have managed to resist this Soros lead conspiracy you say.
Yeah but why aren't Iran and Nth Korea in a collective 'one in all in' military alliance with Russia if they are so fearful of the West?
Surely all parties would logically be hankering for a Russia, Nth Korea, Iran NATO style arrangement?
And why is NATO expanding, whilst poor old Poots can't even keep the one's he has together?
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All in all = Poots winning in dirty's mind.