FR’s oriental despot? WTF?
I’m quoting the director of the CIA. Maybe you wish to address that, vs. talking about pigeons.
Well that's easy: the red line was never crossed as Ukraine is not a member of NATO, nor was any such membership imminent or even possible due to the ongoing war in the Donbass.
But the Director was wrong anyway since, if that line had actually been crossed, Russia would have done absolutely nothing, just like it's doing nothing about Finland and Sweden. Or how it did nothing about Estonia, Lithuania, etc.