Can you tie things together? Because this is about Russia, the Ukraine, and the US, so unless you're saying that the US has invaded Russia or the Ukraine, then the only other option left is to say that Russia is somehow white knighting by choosing to invade Ukraine as a means of protesting the list of places that the US has invaded, which frankly makes no sense.
That's a very weird interpretation of my remarks, which has exactly nothing to do with what I AM saying.
Russia has a much longer history than just the last 25 years and there are large numbers of ethnic Russians living in eastern Ukraine and in Crimea. When the Soviet Union broke up they received Ukrainian citizenship but they obviously did not stop being Russians. They were treated badly by the (corrupt as fuck) Ukrainian government and by other ethnic groups such as the ethnic Poles in the west of the country and by the self described Nazis in the east.
It is also true that the United States and NATO made promises to Russia in the early days of the (CIA engineered- that's yet more belligerent behavior) breakup that NATO would not expand to the east, promises which were repeatedly broken not for the sake of "security" but rather for the profits of Western defense contractors, corporations who to this very day still dictate much of America's warlike foreign policy. Good for business, you know.
Russia's economy is about the size of Italy's or California's, which is to say they're a regional power, not a threat for world domination by any stretch of the imagination. They have every justification to protect themselves from US, not to mention an increasingly aggressive NATO which itself has been behaving far more aggressively than its original mandate of European defense.
They don't want war, plain and simple. They want peace and trade, like pretty much every nation. The notion that they're out to get us is completely silly, paranoid as of typical of the rabid neoconservative right, which is again bankrolled and encouraged by America's weapons industry.
So why is all of this noise happening now? Simple; America wants Europe to buy our natural gas instead of Russia's through Nordstream II, so America is throwing a fit and raising a smokescreen to try and bully or con Europe into not using the pipeline that's already been built.
It always comes back to oil somehow...
