Putin's a Democrat, He Wants to Stamp Out Democracy

Nato is a military alliance that gradually expanded after the coald war to include countries like poland and former soviet republics which border russia. Russia didn't like that nato offered membership to ukraine. And since that offering of a nato membership action plan, puden has invaded and occupied two chunks of georgia. He's invaded and occupied chunks of ukraine, and now he's escalating there. Clearly, he's seeking to reverse what he thinks is the post coal war order that disadvantages russia. Second is political. Ukraine is a democracy. Potentially, democracy gettng a little too close to mos lile, too close to comfort