I have to concede your point about Russian boots on the ground. Fully half of the USA would be hard to take over for Bambi and Putin together.
And if I think about it, if I were Putin, I’d love poking a stick in the Eagles eye. It’d be fun, it would lessen the eagle and embolden the bear and the dragon.
Now think about chaos. We are very close to chaos here in the states. Chaos creates disorder. My mind thinks faster than I can type. So let me leave it at that for a time.
Come on down, we thrive on threats and threats of chaos. Go ask Santa Anna. We know how to be independent, we have the actual experience.