[fruser1]

‘incentive’ to not push things too far with Russia.

It looks to me like Russia is the pushy one.

[BobL]

“It looks to me like Russia is the pushy one.”

But are they? I don’t think Russia has moved their lines forward since the Cold War end, and for almost 25 years, they were perfectly fine with Ukraine being left alone as as an independent country. It wasn’t until Hillary started playing politics there that Russia responded.