re: How much does Putin fabricate or lie?

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NATO did promise not to expand to the East and we've seen how that turned out. Russia is acting like the USA would if China was going to build a military base in Mexico. The left hates Russia because they are communists and they see Russia as apostates, so it is a real, deep hatred. Russia is a middling power at best. Poland, Japan, South Korea, Australia, France, Italy, UK, and maybe even Spain would beat Russia "1v1" if no nukes were involved. They are good at building rockets, helicopters and have some decent aero engines. Currently they are sharing that technology with China and it would suit US policy better if Russia was friendly with the West, which they clearly have wanted to be the last 30 years, and they could get them to stop giving China military technology.

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To be fair, we haven’t fought an adversary that had the ability to strike us in a long time. Russia would be a problem.