RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT ODDS

Because you are elected as a leader in a democratic country, does not give you a monopoly on brains. The Soviet Union as a country lost much of its influence, both politically and militarily  when under Mikhail Gorbachev it literally fell apart. The reason was very simple. Communism and Socialism as economic systems ,do not provide the citizens with the standard of living that is necessary to fulfill the ambitions of  people both economically and socially. It was an opportunity for western Europe to integrate the Eastern European nations into  real economic competition  that would be beneficial to all the regional nations. And then the stupidity of the leaders of Western Europe and the U.S. and even Canada  came to the fore. They began to integrate the Soviet Union`s former satellites into NATO . Slowly over a period of time, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Estonia ,Bulgaria , Latvia, Lithuania and others were integrated into NATO, a military organization formed to fight the Warsaw Pact nations  organized by the Soviets. But there was no Warsaw pact in existence and the Soviet Union became only Russia with nowhere near the power of the past. The Russian economy improved with the high price of oil but the Russian people felt ill at ease. They were treated as inferiors by the west, not as equal partners, and their pride was hurt. Vladimir Putin took advantage of these hurt feelings and Russia began to act as the Soviet Union of old. Having Barack Obama , the do nothing American president, did not help the political situation and so we have the  the Ukrainian nation losing the Crimea, the Syrian debacle and the  political moves in Georgia, Kazakhstan and other offensive actions by the Russian state.The west was viewed as too liberal with the open European Schengen areas,and Russia slowly moved back to much less than the democracy, it was for a while. It is hard to say if the actions by NATO created this whole situation but it did not help.

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