@NahnCee:
doesn’t that mean they’re feeling guilty

Maybe not at all. This article at Das Noo Republikkk has perceptive analysis that Les Russes are way off balance out of fear, just as many commenters on this blog have been saying:

The New Republic
The Death of 1989 by Paul Berman

Germany, having been defeated in World War I, was afterwards said to be undergoing “humiliation”; and yet, after World War II, having been defeated ten times more cruelly, Germany was no longer said to be “humiliated.” That was because the German political doctrines promoting a feeling of “humiliation” disappeared after World War II. It was the doctrines, not the experience of misfortune, that had created “humiliation.”

Russia, having been defeated in the Cold War, is said to be undergoing “humiliation.” But I think mostly the Russian leaders feel something worse, which is fear. The Russian leaders picture their country in a terrifyingly vulnerable position, not unlike how Israel sees itself. Fear, not “humiliation,” led Russia to invade Georgia–a fear of utter destruction facing their own country.

The Russian fear rests merely on a somewhat paranoid interpretation of world events. Fears based on paranoid interpretations cannot be assuaged. A tacit agreement by the rest of the world to allow Russia to conquer the breakaway regions of Georgia and to install a puppet regime in Tbilisi, and to do likewise in Ukraine, and so forth, will not make the Russian leaders feel any less threatened.

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9bc4033e-c412-426c-9907-78d4e5d72abf

Berman drifts off into knee-jerk stuff, a nod to auto-BDS followed by a vague prescription for a “lurch… leftward” [innovative!] and “a policy of “green democracy”" [uh, right?]

Gotta hand to Putie Poo, he’s even got TNR running scared!