Sommersonn

>USSR was never “on the same side” as Hitler.

Really? When they were parading captured Poland or conspiring to divide Europe - they were on different sides?

>Weakened USSR was denied power in Western Europe.

Not weakened, far from it. And it was denied _capturing_ Western Europe. Basically they were saved from horrors of soviet 'communism'.

Russia don't exist for 'hundred of years'.

Why you people are repeating the nonsense?

>What you’re missing is 20M+ Russians were killed in the last world war. That kind of causes deep seated trust issues.

20M+ _Soviets_, not Russians.

And USSR started that war ON THE SAME SIDE as Hitler, so they can blame themselves for 'trust issues'.

>The fundamental geostrategical priority for Russia is to maintain control (or at least good relations with, see Belarus) of the buffer regions around its densely populated regions.

Invading your neighbours is ok, if you'll just call it 'good relations'?

>That is why there are “tensions” when your neighbor begins discussions of entering NATO with a bit of USDS help.

Invading Ukraine was not a 'tension' and had nothing to do with NATO. Russia used another pretense.

>Don't have a direct source link to back this up, sorry.

So why you're spreading FUD, if you have nothing to prove your point?

> the Black Sea Fleet has run out of there under the Russian Flag

That was most wonderful comment so far.

So you're not aware that fleet's flag was changed at least 4 times during last 100 years and half of the time it was nothing to do with Russia?

Should we count early Page & Brin efforts then?

Russia as a country exists only for ~25 years.

Also even it had Crimea for thousand years before, it still won't matter - they've signed numerous international agreement s which stated that Crimea belongs to Ukraine.

It wasn't _their_ naval base in Crimea.

>Yandex predates Google.

Yandex - founded in 2000. Google - founded in 1998.

Predates for sure.

>Russia, and the Russians in the region that was invaded, can justify its mis-deeds as protection of its sovereignty. America, and thus Americans, cannot. There were no Americans to protect in Iraq.

And there was no Russians to protect in Crimea, so stop whitewashing Kremlin lies.

> Russian military action in Ukraine was for the purpose of protecting its sovereign borders and access to the Black Sea.

Without Crimea Russia won't have access to Black Sea? Or it will lose her borders?

Please clarify.

Looks like our Russian friends strongly disagree with you.

Nice twisted rhetoric, really.

For a split second I did believed you, that Russia haven't invaded Ukraine, it merely 'protected it's local territory'.