What do you suppose Putin and the Russians were thinking watching the West expand NATO to their border, the US government actively interfere in the Ukraine and Crimea. They also watched while we dismantled their client states, under facile pretenses in Iraq, Libya and Syria.
The covert games played by the Obama-Clinton regime with McCain/Grahams’ active assistance were stupid. Like it or not we are going to have to find a way to coexist with the Russians. Since the end of WW 2 we had a policy of “well we don’t like the fact the Russians are here or there but there really is nothing we can do about it.
The Russians are reacting the same way we did over Cuba and Nicaragua. Hell we invaded Grenada in 1983 largely to stop a Soviet bomber base getting built by the Cubans.
The US under Obama-Clinton, with McCain/Grahams’ active assistance, has been aggressively pissing in Russian’s sand box.
Libya and Syria were no threat to US Security. Our dismantling their client in Libya and trying to in Syria looks like a deliberate provocation to them. The Russians don’t buy the “humanitarian” argument. They think we are trying aggressively to expand our sphere of influence at their expense. Why do you think the “intelligence agents” spirited out of Allepo this week were 95% Saudi?
These are the same sort of stupid geo political games that helped start World War 1.
Which side are you one?
You believe the West is both weak and a threat to your beloved Putin. Dude, pull up your snow boots.