Reuters headline on Dec 7,1941: "Ships sink at Pearl Harbour amid Japan tensions" Here's my suggestion when reading / thinking / discussing these matters: con

Reuters headline on Dec 7,1941: "Ships sink at Pearl Harbour amid Japan tensions" Here's my suggestion when reading / thinking / discussing these matters: consider what the people in question actually think and want. Close to 100% of what I read on this topic, "NATO's expansion", "Russia's sphere of influence", etc treats the people in question as inanimate objects that are there for the US and Russia to play with. NATO did not expand - free people chose to join an organization because they believed it would be better for them. And it was. Perhaps in the future they will choose differently, you can just ask. Being close to Russia has been a catastrophy for all the places that were under its influnce and they're slowly realizing that and moving away. The closer you were to Russia, the harder this is.