Defending your citizens' interests cannot be compared to, say, France's imperialist escapade into Algeria.
Where did I say that Russia invaded sovereign countries? Russia has spent most of its time defending itself from European invading powers. That's one of the reasons for its mistrust of huge European alliances like the EU.
I am the biggest pacificist you are likely to meet, which, by the way, got me into big trouble in the US military. But, hey, it was they who turned me into the pacifist.
Double wow.
So if my interpretation was wrong, how would you describe Russian "interventions" in the territories I mentioned? Was Russia invaded or attacked by Moldova or Georgia? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
