Putin a threat to Europe? Americans make fun of Fox News, but concerning world affairs, their other sources of information, up to the New York Times, are not that better quality wise.

This is the same BS cold-war narratives in order to justify pressure on Russia, as if Russia will attempt to take over Europe or something, which is laughable. At least in the cold war era USSR was indeed more powerful, and had control over Eastern Europe.

The whole game is about replacing Russian leadership with some friendly Yeltsin like lackey figure, so foreign powers can pillage on Russian natural resources, contracts etc. They could not give a rats arse about "human rights" and the like, they just want to create the same devastation they created elsewhere already.