Whats the true reason America & Western Europe are antagonizing this guy?
Did he do something to the United States? Did he smash somebody's wife?
Does he have something they need? Why is America always on his ass?
He's trying to punch above his weight.
He acts as if he's the leader of the USSR--a continent-spanning Imperial superpower--and deigns to act as such, throwing his weight around, trying to intimidate his neighbors, running blatant
wetworks in Western cities, and thinking he has
unlimited military might. He thus tries to fukk with the west the same way the USSR tried to.
Unfortunately for him, he's not the leader of the USSR. He's just the leader of
Russia. He acts like he's the equal of America in terms of economy and military power, when his economy is the size of Texas, and his military has difficulty acting a hundred miles beyond its border. All he has going for him is nukes, which he starts flexing like a bytch anytime he's challenged. The West responds by holding him in contempt.
Therefore, both America and Europe see the situation in Ukraine as the perfect way to fukk him. We can flood the zone with weaponry and watch his soldiers die and tanks explode without even firing a shot.