> Russia and China are still in the 50-100 years ago mentality and will ruthlessly enforce having buffer states between major powers. How the fuck is that supp

> Russia and China are still in the 50-100 years ago mentality and will ruthlessly enforce having buffer states between major powers. How the fuck is that supposed to work, now that Russia is invading and obviously planning to incorporate Ukraine, which already borders on NATO and EU countries? That's Russia removing any buffer. Does that mean Russia now gets to dictate that Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania must leave NATO and the EU, and they and everyone else is just supposed to STFU and obey? Seems more reasonable that Russia just gets to stick this bit of its "mentality" where the sun don't shine, doesn't it?