Originally Posted by celandina

You are sucking and blowing all at the same time. Expanding to what? Crimea is a Russian territory since Catherine the Great took it from the Ottomans ( even Brits and Turks could not dislodge them).... And all the other satelites around..? Simple, Russia needs to have the Caucuses secure from becoming jihadi freeway to Moscow ( no different then Trump wall) so Putin will NOT allow radical muslim goverments there, he is not a fool. The eastern Ukraine? Have a plebiscite ( just like Brexit, Scotish independence, Kosovo etc...)and you will see majority will vote to go with Putin. And as to the Baltics... Keep pissing the Russian bear off with NATO troops and rockets aimed at Moscow and the Bear will kick ass again....that is the history. I do not know where you got yours.

One thing you all are missing, Putin is a benevolent dictator, but he is not Marxist and thus is not promoting world revolution against capitalism. It is the idiots likes of McCain,Merkel and the rest of those who are promoting world dominance of democracy, a failed system in countries not ready for it and that is 70 % of the World.