And some of these recent NATO countries, like Czechia and Slovakia, still remember the Soviet tanks rolling into them in 1968, as they tried to liberate themsel

And some of these recent NATO countries, like Czechia and Slovakia, still remember the Soviet tanks rolling into them in 1968, as they tried to liberate themselves from their Soviet-imposed Communist governments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring#Soviet_invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring#Soviet_invasion Russia is currently run by Putin, who was a KGB agent in the Soviet regime.