This is what I was trying to get at. If he gave a justification or explanation that made sense (ridiculous as that sounds) it would have been interesting to see the reaction or defense. But there isn't one as far as I can tell.
I do feel that he/Russia has had a raw deal at times when it came to relationships with the US but still, but what Putin didn't tell in his interview is that in a good many of those cases the things he was acting wounded about came about because of the actions of Russia in the first place, in some cases rewriting history to try and swap around the timeline. I really wish someone really knowledgable on the history of foreign affairs would do a deep dive on it because it is well beyond my depth of knowledge.
Funny thing is if he feels that threatened by the West he should just skip to WW3 because the West doesn't need to surround Russia country by country via bringing them into NATO and setting up bases, etc. the combined logistics of the US/NATO (reach, SAC, etc.) can deliver vast amount of hardware and manpower to forward staging areas in a few hours if it came to it.
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