Put on your big-boy pants and tone down the “empire” fearmongering bullshit. The US has been a loose canon lately invading and destabilizing stuff all over the place. Russia and others have justifiable safety concerns and are making moves in their own national interest.

Oh, tone down the drama-queen act! Russia is not the one with hundreds of military bases around the world, aircraft carriers prowling thousands of miles from its borders, sticking its nose in everyone’s business. Toppling regimes and creating a mess everywhere. Russia is trying to plot an independent course and a…

“...nice wide buffer zone between them and the nearest T-80”

If you put some (recent) historical perspective on what the Serbs went through in Croatia during WW2 (death camps, genocide) you would see that their actions there were mostly motivated out of fear and self-preservation. Imagine you were Jewish/Polish/etc living in a border town in Germany and a large number of the…