ericsson16 ... good point.
"Russia just keeps nibbling away at territories on their borders"
Maybe Comrade Putin sees things differently, maybe the so called nibbling is a full blown feast from the west! Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania to mention but a few.
Yup, we do rather tend to look at things from our own perspectives, create the demonic image of Putin and ... rattle our pieces of paper.
From his POV there are undoubtedly different concerns, including the "Russia is surrounded by enemies" syndrome.
However, one had hoped that in the 21st C. we had all grown out of this sort of behaviour, and that's what worries me.
Good discussion, though ... some interesting points of view!