What really matters in the end is: Who started the killing? Russia starts the killing. Bordering nations have every right to engage in whatever word games they want to protect themselves. I say this as an Orthodox Christian: Russia needs to stop colonizing surrounding peoples, and needs to start behaving like a civilized European country. Germany and France could take over Belgium/Netherlands/Liechtenstein/Luxembourg whenever they want to, but they don't, even they share similarities like that of Ukraine & Russia. And Russia has no business demanding that the Baltics not join a defensive alliance against it after all the colonizing Russia has done to them for hundreds of years. Do you support self-determination and freedom or not? Because it seems you don't.