delving into a little history
russia has a love hate relationship with the west. After the last two go rounds an abiding distrust of letting europe creep close to what it thinks is her natural borders. Ukraine was interested in Nato but europe sensibly put them off. Between Napoleon, germany funding Lenin's spree and Adolph I would suggest that they have a reasonable cause to keep the front door as far away from moscow as possible. That has nothing to do with democracy but realpolitik. Just because we pretend to have a democracy here in america, doesnt mean the rest of the world doesn't see thru the oligarch's that control the american dream.
