Well, with our perspective it would seem utterly stupid, if you were Russian you'd have a completely different view. You'd see NATO having expanded into all the former USSR countries and getting closer to Russia, you'd see nuclear weapons being placed in countries like Turkey and Germany. You'd look to the fact that Russia was denied the ability to join NATO when it asked to do so, yet all of the other former USSR countries have been welcomed with open arms. I don't understand why this is even a contentious issue. We don't like Russia, we deliberately sought to get as many countries aligned against them as possible. Russia don't like us, if they had the ability and resources they'd do the same thing. The only difference is that a lot of people in the West seem to want to deny reality and pretend like America isn't doing the same thing that Russia is.
NATO expansion may have prevented war, it may have caused war, it isn't black and white for anyone with an objective view. No one is *fine* with anything that's currently happening, stop making dumb statements like that, everyone is pretty ******* far from fine. You think we should have "defended them in 2014", like how? Attacked Russia? Russia will not allow itself to lose Crimea, it is strategically important to them, if you don't know why then Google it. If you want to take their naval base off them then prepare for a full on war with Russia, just as if you were to try and take Pearl Harbor from the Americans.
No one is saying that Putin is anything other than a gangster, so what? Plenty of countries are exactly the same and it's none of our business.
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