> What they're not doing is dismantling the country and trying to rebuild it from scratch, like the US has been trying in Iraq. That's true. Other those two wa

> What they're not doing is dismantling the country and trying to rebuild it from scratch, like the US has been trying in Iraq. That's true. Other those two wars, they have taken the tack of funding and supporting pro-Putin political parties instead. You can see that throughout Europe. Rather than rebuilding countries with weak institutions, Putin attacks those with decent ones from within. > NATO has been steadily pushing towards Russia ever since the USSR fell Yes, as Putin's Russia has become more and more beligerent. It's not as though the Baltics joined just for the sake of more meetings.