RizzyKing

Would our involvement really help or do even more damage I'm not sure right now I think the best way to calm the tension is to back off and halt further advances to the east. There will be those who parrot the line of "we must stand up to Putin" which is all well and good but the reality is there is bugger all we can effectively do to stand up to him. He has been modernising and rearming the Russian military at a time we've all been cutting both military budgets and manpower to the point where our ability to present a credible military block to whatever ambitions he might have is no block at all. Russia needs more time to be a nation we can build a more balanced relationship with, only time will remove the old soviet attitudes and diehards and we haven't given the time. All we have done in the west is progress further and further east right onto Russia's doorstep and now other nations and their populations will pay for it.

All this mad Vlad and evil Putin crap is a smokescreen for us to avoid taking any responsibility for a problem we did everything to create as the west has always done is it any wonder Russia has got more nervous and angry over the years.