Yes, of course. We are going to have a big war within the next 4-5 years.
Care to expand on this? I am curious.
Russia has not been controlled or contained.
Russia would have to advance past the old Iron Curtain (save East Germany) for actual war to break out. proxy war is already happening.
No, just as soon as any NATO member is invaded.
you think Putin can't get a few of the old Soviet bloc countries to 'voluntarily' renounce NATO membership?
You see, those dictators want to control a country, not being some regional governor than can be fired at will by Putin.
No dictators in the Soviet bloc countries that have joined NATO.
yeah - one reason being that a Western ally automatically earns the title of small-d democrat by virtue of being a Western ally (ie: allow US military bases, expropriation of profits by Western corporations). Colombia the democratic haven, Venezuela the Stalinist hellhole.
hence Lukashenko is the "last European dictator" - Belarus refused mass privatization and maintained close ties to Moscow.
You seem to be under the false impression that 2015 Eastern Europe is virtually identical to 1985 Eastern Europe, with basically everything in those countries having stayed the same, except that they are members of NATO now with pro-American puppet dictatorships instead of pro-Russian puppet dictatorships in place.
Well, let's just say that you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about and leave it at that...