> Putin, like UBL before him, is not comfortable with The West "encroaching on his area." He, again like UBL, openly expressed his concerns along with warnings,

> Putin, like UBL before him, is not comfortable with The West "encroaching on his area." He, again like UBL, openly expressed his concerns along with warnings, and was ignored. Eventually as they say, the rest is history. If this is true it’s interesting that NATO was never mentioned in the accidentally posted “victory” article, that Russian state media posted a couple days into the war. The article was all about righting historical wrongs and how Ukraines independence in 1991 was a mistake. The acronym NATO isn’t even in it once.