Quote Originally Posted by Basil77 View Post
Eric, if you want to understand, why majority of Russians are justifying Crimea annexation and, after yesterday, invasion into continental Ukraine, you should bear in mind that these people, including me, think that border that appeared in 1991 between Russia and Ukraine is a joke and when USA and EU are messing with Ukraine they are messing with our internal affairs. Killed pro-Russian Ukrainians are considered as our compatriots and opposide side is considered as mad neo-nazi USA puppets.
And I guess the same goes for the other 13 former soviet republics, right? That's an amazingly wrong attitude, you should fix it! It's the artificially created states like the USSR, Checzho-Slovakia, Yugoslavia etc. that is to be considered "the joke". Luckily, most of those are history now. And I don't get you folks, you live in the biggest country in the world and still look for expansion, WHAT FOR???