cold war

I read in the papers daily almost now of the military build up in European countries as counter measure to other countries acts of aggression what i would like to hear is peoples opinions is this putin and his aggressive tone or is he just testing the west to see what he can get away with and have we made the situation worse by dancing to putins tune and making these military manoevres

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SW-User

Well, the West is more aggressive than Putin by now, look what Putin has lost last ten year, the whole Warsaw pact is gone and intsead his back yard is full of aggressive Yanks in an occupied Ukraine.

Mugin16 · 46-50, M

It was not "Putin" who lost the Warsaw Pact. That happened in the last 1980s under Gorbachev when the Soviet Union still existed (and not ten years ago). The Russian state almost collapsed in the 1990s and went bankrupt in 1998. The Russian people suffered hardships, which people in the West can barely imagine.

SW-User

@Mugin16: Still no reason to enlarge the Nato into Russian's direction in the way they did, look, I'm not a Putin fan but please stop playing the innocent one, it's clear who's the aggressor, and that's not Russia now.

Mugin16 · 46-50, M

@kingkyrie: I absolutely agree with you: It is the West and particulary the U.S. who is the aggressor. The enlargement of NATO was a mistake. I just corrected your statement.