> If all you have to base your argument on is what you've learned in mainstream western media, I'm afraid you're not informed
As opposed to Russian state media or deranged fringe conspiracy theorists?
If you said something like this instead:
NAZI GERMANY has made plenty of attempts at peaceful relations with its neighbors. It has been rebuffed countless times because peace with GERMANY won't make anyone any profit.
You would sound about the same as you do now. Russia is not entitled to a zone of influence in Eastern Europe, it does not own Ukraine or the Baltic States for that matter. It's objectively an imperialist pseudo-fascist revanchist state...