> Russia really thought they would be greeted as liberators. Even if they did, they won't now. And that only means more bad news as then they wouldn't mind a S

> Russia really thought they would be greeted as liberators. Even if they did, they won't now. And that only means more bad news as then they wouldn't mind a Syria in their backyard as the only thing that's worse than that, in their eyes, is NATO in their backyard. > ...history almost as bad as Afghanistan. I don't know what history you are alluding to, but after advent of Islam in Central Asia, Afghanistan was a dominant power in the region, with its rule firmly established in South Asia for a century or two. Afghanistan's recent "bad history" is courtesy of Soviet and American invasions.