@thor I'm no fan of Putin and I can probably be called anti-Russian without it being slander, but the makings of this NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine has its basis in over 30 years of American chauvinism and attempts of economic colonization of the former Soviet Union from 1991 and into the first decade of the 2000s. The American attitude was that they "won" the cold war and treated Russia as a defeated foe, instead of letting her be a full member of the community of nations throughout the Yeltsin years.