America will do nothing. Ukraine is the Russians’ backyard - if they want to slap it silly, who is going to stop them?
And what is amusing to the Russians is the high minded dungeon from countries that once ran empires. The Russians still know hard power ultimately is the best instrument of asserting real influence.
They don’t care if they burn their bridges to the West - but they will obtain the respect they think they rightly deserve and aren’t about to let upstart Ukraine spit in their face. There is a method in Vladimir Putin’s seeming madness and its one that may pay them dividends.
America will do nothing. Ukraine is the Russians’ backyard - if they want to slap it silly, who is going to stop them?
Russia also has a border dispute with Canada. Doing nothing now when a neo Brezhnev KGB thug rampages against his neighbor will have big costs later.