No, I'm pretty sure that despite your loathing of the US that Russia has a vote too. Just ask Ukraine.

Ukraine used to have ICBMs and Crimea.

Russia has lots of local "shopping" to do yet - Ukraine proper, Moldova, etc., before it is free to look at anything else. And the US isn't finished budget cutting and disarming yet. Besides, other desirable properties may be made available in the meantime. The UK keeps flirting with total nuclear disarmament.

Not "accountable," but "blamed."

There were many large "anti-War" demonstrations in 1991 when the US led coalition was preparing to remove Saddam's army from Kuwait after Iraq invaded and annexed it. The streets pretty much empty of protests after Saddam's invasion.

So, any protests going on in the West about Russia's invasion of Crimea, and threats against Ukraine? Or are we saving all our energy for when NATO needs to defend itself? I assume the protesters will find their signs by then.

You mean the governments in Moscow, both Russian, and the former government of Ukraine that was removed by Ukraine's parliament. (Why do you think they fled to Moscow on the eve of a Russian invasion?)

Russia keeps the receipts and has an expansive view on return policies.

I assume that the Supreme Soviet approved those actions.

There isn't any question that our views differ, and it isn't a "slight" difference. The US invaded Afghanistan in a legitimate act of self defense after a series of attacks on diplomatic posts and military units culminating in the 9/11 attacks. As to Iraq, maybe you could explain to me why you think ordinary Iraqis would want to continue being subjected to Saddam's government? I believe there are hundreds of mass graves that have been found since the invasion, and that is before you get to the question of mass killings with chemical weapons. Iraq was a brutal dictatorship before the invasion, and now it is a functioning even if troubled parliamentary democracy, and US combat forces left long ago. In neither case was their a coup that the US invaded after. And unlike Crimea, Iraq committed hundreds of acts of war against the US before it acted.

So yes, our views are different. My views at least have an identifiable association with history as opposed to being some sort of self-loathing anti-American political fringe rubbish.

Depending on the country you live in there may not be an option in the not too distant future. That is assuming Russia needs more than Spetsnaz and airborne forces to seize control.

Where? That doesn't describe Iraq. That doesn't describe Afghanistan. Your statement is false.

Could you refresh me about which conflict it was that the US invaded a peaceful neighbor and annexed some of its territory to itself by force of arms? I can't think of any examples.

There were many reasons for Finland's relative success that don't apply today to this conflict, and if you don't understand that you are in the realm of magical thinking. I will also point out that as glorious as Finland's resistance was, Finland actually lost that war and had some of its territory taken by the Soviet Union and added to the Russian Soviet Republic.

The Ukrainians also remember what happed to them the last time Moscow was really unhappy with them. And oddly enough Putin is a former career KGB secret police officer.

That is a load of bull.

The 1973 Fire, National Personnel Records Center

They are still recovering from that one.

Experts Recover Military Personnel Records 40 Years After Fire

Depending on the question that can simply be a training issue.