> may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat Or maybe Russia see eastern and central Europe as their sphere of in

> may be Russia see NATO + US as a much bigger threat than how NATO see Russia as a threat Or maybe Russia see eastern and central Europe as their sphere of influence, which they lost. And now they're using any excuse to try to re-establish that. What kind of NATO danger did they expect from Georgia? Russia had zero reason to see de-militarised Europe as a threat.