Those countries are not Russias to play with as Putin pleases and, if they can be encouraged to join NATO and the west, that is because of the way they were tre

Those countries are not Russias to play with as Putin pleases and, if they can be encouraged to join NATO and the west, that is because of the way they were treated by Russia. If Russia didn't want them to be part of NATO they shouldn't have abused them. Russia is burthurt on this, that cannot and should not be the concern of the rest of us.