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Norris2k on 17 March 2014
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 I disagree on that, I don't think Russia expanding is not a problem for US. US Governement is still in a cold war containment strategy (and Russia is also still in "active defense" mode). That's why both Georgia and Ukraine joined NATO (and why Russia got in both). Just for a country corrupted and unstable in the border of Russia to join NATO proves there is some value. The Balkan Peninsula as always been very strategic because it's unstable and geographically of importance. Also the US are very pissed about Snowden fleeing in Russia, aren't they ?

Also Crimea was not invaded the way US fought Irak. There are soldiers here more and less like an UN mission, for control. And Crimea agreed to join Russia by a referendum that is said to be pretty fair.

Also as a general rule, US is making war, controlling, influencing, helping so many countries, I don't think there are lot of things that are not an issue for US.

Georgia and Ukrainge are not in NATO.  If they were Russia would not have invaded them because the US is obligated to defend them.  The US is not in a Cold War mindset.  In 2012 MItt Romeny was mocked for suggestiong the US #1 geopolitical foe was Russia.  He's not looking to stupid now, but it shows how far removed the US population is from Cold War style thinking.

An agressive Russia trying to reclaim Soviet Union territorry is a concern for the US but thats different than a border country being allied with them.  The US news hardly ever even covered Ukraine prior to Russian advancement.

OK, not in NATO, but on the verge of joining it.

The bold sentence is quite clear. It's covered if russia is involved. It's not if a bunch of fascists overcome a democratic governement near Europe, and want to remove russian as an official language in an area where people are mostly russians.

US was involved in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Irak, Libya, Yemen, Liberia, Pakistan, in about 15 years. They fought wars, killed, threw away governements, are still in place in lot of these countries, took good access to resources. For Irak it was based on facts proven to be lies and won by brutal force and occupation. In most cases there were no international or UN agreement. For Afghanistan it involved torture. I'm not telling everything is wrong or by pure interest. I'm telling that how can you come with "an agressive Russia trying to reclaim Soviet Union territory" ? This is such a cold war BS when Russia sent a little army force, fought no war and proved support by a referendum. Was it aggressive, really ? There is a giant chess game on going, and Russia is a very small, cautious and defensive player compared to US.