Talk:Scenario: World War III (Obama vs. Putin)/@comment-25718593-20141214233518/@comment-25718593-20141215023633

Russia understandably opposed the eastward expansion of NATO and American plans to build a limited missile defense system (which would have required changes to or the US withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty). Russia strongly hinted that any progress on START III would be subject to the satisfaction of its concerns on these issues. In addition, a Russian proposal to reduce stockpiles still further to 1,000-1,500 warheads was opposed by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Germany should have gone pure neutral like the Swiss or maybe neutral with a Western tendency like Austria.

Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and the Baltic States soon joined either the EU and/or NATO since they have never relay liked Russia and/or Serbia.

Boris Yestin was a bad leader and got it all wrong. The economy failed and the EU enticed over Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Finland, Sweden and Austria.

Chechnya went crazy and is still partly infested with Islamic terrorists and Al-Qaeda secret agents.