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 From a position of strength it was all too easy to expand. NATO lacked the wisdom to make a second thought in what they were really doing.
-Putin said his time in Germany was the best in his life. Indeed he lived with his wife and two daughters here in the heart of Europe.
+'''Putin's KGB training and cold war experiences including the paranoia ''shaped'' him for using questionable methods.''' Besides that he was not always that power seeking person with an inflated, narcissistic ego. [https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfzoom/zdfzoom-der-enthemmte-despot-102.html He did not wanted to be president nor did he think he would keep that position.] He was put into that position and even tried to fight the oligarchs.
-he said "the cold war is over" and wanted to reduce the mutual threatening. But his speech in Bundestag remained without consequences. Also Putin: "An unrequited love is an unhappy one." In a way we let him starve at a distance of one arm length.
+he said "the cold war is over" and wanted to reduce the mutual threatening. But his speech in Bundestag remained without consequences. After 9/11 he even allowed USA to use military bases in former Soviet republics for operations against Taliban. We missed the chance to stop a self-fulfilling prophecy. He became disappointed by Europe's half-hearted partnership additionally hampered by US hardliners who took themselves the right to operate all over the world. He ended up in letting the oligarchs work for him and put himself at the top of the deeply corrupt system, "managed democracy". Possibly understanding himself as smaller necessary evil. Why chancellor Schröder named him a "flawless democrat" he possibly will never let us know. Putin raised to represent but not fulfilled Russia's claim in power in which also lies some old Soviet pride and made him reject joining NATO as a mere ordinary member. Calling them losers was the best diplomatic behavior.
-'''Putin's KGB training and cold war experiences ''shaped'' him for using questionable  methods. He raised to represent but not fulfilled Russia's claim in power while also becoming disappointed by Europe's half-hearted partnership - additionally hampered by US hardliners. A growing frustration and long-running multifarious corruption of Putin took place.''' Ultimately it drove him into attacking Ukraine. Does this retrospectively legitimize NATO's expansion? Now the voices of the ''eternal alerters'' are loud. "See! We always told you!" And yet they fall short to realize the broader picture.
+'''A long-running frustration and even deeper multifarious corruption took place.'''
-'''Cold warrior Putin has turned into a full-fledged monster - and the West is not without guilt in creating that monster. Right now we need the strength of NATO to contain him. But someday the question will resurface: How can we exit the dangerous bloc mentality? That is actually not a question but a necessity.
+Having lost most scruple - as assassinations, attempts and smaller preceding wars have shown - he went on and attacked Ukraine in its entirety. Does this retrospectively legitimize NATO's expansion? Now the voices of the ''eternal alerters'' are loud. "See! We always told you!" And yet they fall short to realize the broader picture: '''Cold warrior Putin has turned into a full-fledged monster - and the West is not without guilt in creating that monster.''' Right now we need the strength of NATO to contain him. But someday the most difficult question will resurface: How can we exit the dangerous bloc mentality? That is actually not a question but a necessity.
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