> but why NATO wants to continue to expand when the US/EU knows perfectly that this only makes Russia more aggressive This seems ridiculous to me. Russia has

> but why NATO wants to continue to expand when the US/EU knows perfectly that this only makes Russia more aggressive This seems ridiculous to me. Russia has been aggressive to its neighbors for a hundred years. > They won't join NATO (because the West doesn't want to go to war with Russia directly) but they'll be ruined by a tragic war. They couldn't join because the second Viktor Yanukovych was gone, Russia invaded the east and took Crimea. You can't join NATO while in an active conflict. People seem to be forgetting that the very second his henchman got tossed out he invaded. The precipitating event was a trade deal with the EU, not a bid to enter NATO.