Originally Posted by
Beamr
You are missing the point. US never said any country "hey you can't join the Warsow pact" nor ODKB. Russia is now telling its neighboring sovereign countries that they can't join NATO if they want to. Russia is trying to talk to US about european countries without talking to the european countries themselves. What an arrogant a****** Putin is! Who treats their neighbors like that?
This is all just Putin wishing to create a world power and leave his name in history.And just like with the USSR all the neighbors are going to suffer.
You mean USA is not saying Germany that it can't buy Russian gas?
Throwing sanctions out against any company that was connected with NS2?
Yes, Putin/Russia is a bully. So are many others, but somehow that is not triggering a lot of you