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Originally Posted by RobLL
It was not smart for the US to have so aggresively expanded NATO where it didn't belong and did not add to US security. This is payback, and of course it will hurt the US of A, and not the knuckleheads to devised the policiy of stupid expansion. Anyone with their head not up their bu**, would have spent some time as to how far we could push Russian. We seem to have had legitimate interests in Poland, and lesser interests in the Baltic three. But in any event we should have been as un-in their face as possible to Russian. Bush and his minions (string pullers) seemed to delight in embarassing the Russions. Stupid. Stupid beyond belief.
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I can agree with some of the above, but I think it is naive to think that anything the Russians are doing now can be laid to the tone of our actions. Russian is flexing its muscles, as it has done to a lesser extent as to the Ukraine, as it has done big time in its own separatist region , Chechnya, whose desire for independence somehow does not strike the Russians as merited , unlike the separatists in Georgia.
Whether we tread lightly or not makes, IMO, little difference. Putin is concerned about power. Reestablishing the power of Russia is his goal. I would bet there are heads of state in numerous small countries in the region who are sleeping a little less soundly at present. They have more to worry bout than radiation poisoning.