>I disagree. These lines of reasoning have always been there. Due to America's geographical impenetrability the threat of military encroachment or invasion is

>I disagree. These lines of reasoning have always been there. Due to America's geographical impenetrability the threat of military encroachment or invasion is virtually zero. As such it gets downplayed in political discourse to irrelevance. It's often almost impossible for Americans to see international politics through the prism of geographic threat because it has simply never affected them. Meanwhile the entirety of the Russian psyche is centered around it (along with many others). The west routinely writes this off as "oh, just propaganda". The lines of reasoning have been there forever but judging from the number of people who treat geography as a non entity when attempting to explain foreign behaviors, sentiments and attitudes it might as well be a fresh discovery.