When has the US voter ever decided much of anything?

I thought Russiagate was a pack of lies created by the Clinton campaign to link Trump with collusion with a foreign power in relation to his 2016 campaign.

Now you've got the conspiracy going back to the breakup of the former Soviet Union?

Don't the countries formerly annexed by the former Soviet Union deserve a chance to make their own minds up which hegemony they cast their lot in with? Or does Russia retain the right to re-annex any country previously located behind the Iron Curtain?

Is "Iron Curtain" considered offensive language and demoralizing to Russian citizens?

Does the Berlin wall need to be rebuilt to protect the Eastern bloc from Western intervention?

Will Ukraine's people be better off under Russian rule than as an independent nation?

Are they happy that they will soon shed the yoke of Western oppression and rejoin their comrades as Russians from the Ukraine Territory?

I just don't get why I should feel sorry for Russia. None of the players is innocent, none more guilty than the other. It's business as usual on the diplomatic front. You say Putin is justified in his invasion of Ukraine because western diplomats are neo cons.

I say Putin himself is a neocon and it's all a battle of equals. May the best man win!

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