re: Who's Invading Who?

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The Americans laughed at him.

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Yuge mistake on Clinton and W’s part to alienate Putin in those early days. Much like OP and others in this thread, they were simply too caught up in Cold War dynamics to make a rational decision.

We will, one day, need Russia when it comes to fighting China, and the past 20+ years of American foreign policy has made that eventual alignment of interests against the Chinese more painful than it had to be.

That said the tantrum the Russians have thrown in those last two decades have not made it any easier either.