Azerbaijan. Kazakhstan. Tajikistan. Uzbekistan. Turkmenistan. Bessarabia. Poland. Belarus. Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia. Finland. Latvia. Estonia. Lithuania. Ukraine. Afghanistan. Georgia. Germany. Hungary. Armenia. Romania. Yugoslavia. Japan. China. Korea.

They were all once subject to Communist rule.

The first leg of Iron Maiden's World Slavery Tour in '84?

They all border with Russia ?

All recent additions or near-future targets for NATO expansion?

The countries were either established or had their borders redrawn by the Treaty of Versailles? Not sure about some of the Stans...but I think this is true.

They have all had Russian troops on their soil.

That's a gentle way of putting it, but yes, you are correct Webster--and all of them have experienced Russia's military might in the last 90 years.

Try to convince Comrade Obama and his ilk that there's something wrong with that.

there are US troops deployed there?