“ You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. The trap is allowing Russia to punch itself out, bleed itself dry, before forcing it to stop”
More than that is to let the world see that Russia is not about negotiating for anything less than everything it(putin) wants.
The more he threatens Europe, Baltics, and the US, the more his true “Christian” character shines.
Where is General Kim?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Kim