the former soviet union states joining nato. once he lost his stooge who was overthrown in ukraine he had toic to action. the reason for the overthrow was because the people wanted to move closer to the european union for economic prosperity and move into nato for a political alliance and the security that goes along with that. in the 7 years since this time, despite being in crimea and russia being in eastern ukraine, the people of ukraine are overwhelming supportive of wanting to be a part of the eu and nato are their leaders. that s grown in 7 years much to his frustration. a lot of this has to deal with what i am talking about right