All you need to look at is Finland. We seemingly had the best non-bound relationship as a borner nation with Russia a few weeks ago. We never relaxed our defens

All you need to look at is Finland. We seemingly had the best non-bound relationship as a borner nation with Russia a few weeks ago. We never relaxed our defense because we knew that the USSR is run by leaders who after years of climbing political ranks come out as revisionist as they can be. Nowhere is it more evident than in the revisionism surrounding the cause of the war between USSR and Finland. If USSR/Russia can be this hostile towards a small nation on its border that has zero ambitions for global domination then does anyone really stand a chance? Pretty much the only reason Finland has not been on Russia’s list of enemies to subjugate is that there has been the credible threat of joining Nato since the 90s. Now Putin has shown he is even more out there than we even wanted to believe and ranted about correcting Lenin’s mistakes (one of them being granting the Grand Duchy of Finland independence in 1917 in the hopes that we go through a communist revolution and voluntarily join the USSR).