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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smiler2012 · 56-60

mugin16 so do you think this is a Russia thinking this is a smack in the face for them seeing old soviet block countries deserting them and joining the other side or is it more a case of Russia fearing having nato on there own doorstep and if so have a very short memory in the days of the cold war where soviet bloc countries bordered a nato country

Mugin16 · 46-50, M

I think the Russian do not like to have NATO right on their border. The Russians have been invaded by Germans, Poles, Swedes, French over the last 1,000 years or so. They lost 13 million people in WWII. Russia has no natural borders - no oceans, rivers or mountains protecting them. Their only defense in the pas was pushing their border as far away from their heartland in order to have enough time to stop an invasion. Now they have thousands of nuclear weapons of course.

smiler2012 · 56-60

mugin16 maybe so but that is the geographical map and remember during the cold war west Germany had a communist country on there border