Another book that I would recommend reading.
It's called A Promised Land by Barack Obama.
So to understand maybe all of the examples I'm using are
historical because I have no examples in the present of this.
Here is Obama stating the nature of Vladimir Putin's gripe with
America, the US. This on page 464.
The US decision 7 earliers 7 years earlier to pull out of the
Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty and its plans to house missile
defense systems on Russian border continue to be a source
of strategic instability. The admission of former Warsaw
Pact countries into NATO during both Clinton and Bush
administrations had steadily encroached on Russia's sphere of
influence, while US support for the color revolutions in
Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan under the specious guise of
democracy promotion had turned Russia's once friendly neighbors
into governments hostile to Moscow.
So in other words, according to the former president, Russia's
gripe is not, well, we're taking over Hitler's failed plan to
take over the world. According to twice elected
president, those are Putin's gripes.
NATO expansion, color revolutions and getting out of
now. Open Skies as well, but
previously the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty.