Understand in Russia too while only an economy valued in USA Dollars the size of California or Texas yet Russia "Territory" sits on "Vast Resources" even "CHINA" Depends Upon shares a "Border" too and a "Vast" Military as well..
While the "Collapse" Former Soviet Union also sparked the Asian Finacial Collapse 1998
After the "Break-Up" we made a "Deal" ya wont expand "NATO" any farther "East"
But now Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania are now "NATO" too