I've never found Soviet / Russian Kremlin war mongering persuasive.
Trump has already disclosed, divulged his aspirational wish-list, including Iceland, and Canada. Russia is not on that list.
That
Russia's 11 time zones comprise the armpit of planet Earth is metaphorical geo-political flattery.
NATO expands, UNQUESTIONABLY. That this expansion is preparatory to NATO intrusion / conquest of Russia's sovereign territory is laughable.
NATO may prefer Crimea be returned to Ukraine. That is not NATO expansionism.
The wisdom of NATO expansion is based on a geo-strategic truism known since Sun Tzu published
The Art of War.
Better than winning a War, discourage a prospective enemy from attempting an attack.
We don't accomplish that as Crimea didn't, with weakness.
We accomplish that with overwhelming strength, jerking the rug of ambiguity out from under the rampaging Russian bear.
Leaving appealing real estate like
Kremlin paranoid delusion and fantasy mongering is conspicuous cocky pop.
But NATO expansion is evil.
Even before NATO officially existed, the colonial imperialist powers that we now call NATO, were taking over Asia and the western Hemisphere.
They started WWI and WWII actually, in my opinion, and tried to take over China, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, etc.
They also tried to take over Africa, like the British in South Africa and the Belgians in the Congo.
The only reasons these NATO countries have not attacked Russia is that Russia is too strong, and because Russia has little of value.
But the parts of Russia that are of value, like the Ukraine, we are targeting.
And if you look at the history, it become obvious how the western propaganda machine works.
Like the claim that Russia stole the Crimea from the Ukraine in 2014.
The reality is that the Ukraine stole the Crimea from Russia in 1953, because Khruschev was actually a Ukrainian, and he just took it.
In 2014, the Maidan Coup of ethnic Polish generals violated their treaties with Russia, and tried to prevent Russian use of Sevastopol.
And it was this act of war by the Ukraine, that forced Russia to take back all of the Crimea.
The propaganda machine is working overtime, because obviously Russia is not actually aggressive at all.
They have no fleets, amphibious landing craft, etc.
Russia's forces are so defensive, that they could not even prevent our takeover of Afghanistan or the Ukraine.
Currently we are taking over the Mideast, with Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, etc.
About the only force left in the Mideast is Iran, but we are working on destroying them as well.
What is even more confusing, is if Russia really exists at all.
Just like I think ISIS is fake and created by the US as an Islamic boogey man, Russia may also be fake.
The threat of an enemy is good for raising taxes, munitions profiteering, etc.
The anti-Bolshevik propaganda has always been strong and a great source of votes.
There is a strong possibility Lenin and Stalin were western plants right from the beginning?
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