> depriving these two modern superpowers of their neighboring resources? Wow so people are just resources to be exploited eh? > We’d do the same expansionist

> depriving these two modern superpowers of their neighboring resources? Wow so people are just resources to be exploited eh? > We’d do the same expansionist thing Mexico is kind of shitty yet the US hasn't invaded. Cuba is straight up hostile, yet there they are, an independent country. The US basically conquered parts of Germany, Italy and Japan and not only let them be independent countries, even helped them rebuild. No, your theory is shit. The US has had all the opportunity to expand yet hasn't. I was in Europe during the Iraq war, sentiment was pretty anti-American. I'm in Europe today, it's more pro-American than I ever could have imagined. More anti-Russian than ever. If Russia and China wanted less hostile neighbours, maybe they should have been less shitty. Ukraine has been very pro-Russian at times, Zelenskiy himself even tried to make peace (he was the "pro-Russian" candidate during his election if you didn't follow Ukrainian elections regularly). Taiwan used to believe in "one country, two systems" but China fucked HK. I'm in Czech Republic right now, used to be part of the Warsaw pact. Yet the frontrunner in the presidential election is a former Chair of the NATO military committee and all the politicians who were previously friendly to Russia have disavowed. There's Ukrainian flags everywhere and Russians are banned from getting visas here. Despite the refugee and energy crisis I've never seen a more anti-Russian sentiment. Even Karlovy Vary, which used to have a ton of Russian tourists, has no sign of Russia anywhere. No tourists, no flags, nothing. Just yellow and blue flags everywhere.