RE:RE:RE:RE:Nice!Spot on, CountryGent. I guess, we can agree on such a list of states.
Big question is who misssed the oppertunity that you mention: was it "the West" who failed to do something or was it people like Putin who did want their people to have the freedom to vote or to decide who to love.
As to Germany and NothStream I and II I beg to differ. At least when it comes to the period after 2014 when the killing in Ukrane started and Putin took Criema and also East European countries warned Germany to make deals with Russia leading to a lesser independence.
North Stream was designed to bypass Ukrania. Only months before it was finished Putin attacked.
So, I have have doubts that these projects were promoted with the common good as its aim, not even from the German side.
But, as said, a minor point.
Best,
M