Meanwhile , Russia has consistently warned , since 2008 when Ukraine submitted a Membership Action Plan and Georgia indicated its desire to do so , that it would respond to any such actions by invading and conquering both countries . Yeah , Russia has yelled about something like that for all of Eastern Europe in the past couple of decades . Those countries now solidly under the Western umbrella and doing just fine . Whenever we give Russia a DMZ of countries between it and NATO , they keep screwing up those countries . Doing nothing is leaving them out in the cold . We ' re asking them to join NATO voluntarily , Russia is threatening invasion I think I know who has the moral high ground . <| sep |> yep very sad and hard to understand