Londonrake wrote:Max.
Respect.
I asked the question before - without a reply. What a surprise!
Can you see the likes of Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Iceland, UK, Norway + 24 others, sitting around a table and agreeing "Yes, let's invade Russian. Great idea! Napoleon and Hitler couldn't both be wrong and - there would be so much to gain". It's clearly absolute bullshit.
The reason all those ex-Warsaw Pact countries were so keen to join was precisely because of what we're seeing now in Ukraine.
The NATO thing was just an excuse for domestic Russian consumption (well, and useful idiots in the west of course). Just like the sudden, shock discoveries of umpteen bio-war labs working on attacking Russians on their very doorstep. Justification. On the whole though - It doesn't seem to be working.
So do you think that the Russians are sitting around a table and agreeing to invade Europe and all these countries need to join NATO?
You have made one very good observation that you possibly didnt even realize.
That is, Europeans attacked and tried to invade Russia twice before. When did Russia last try that?