[rbmillerjr]

The US/NATO put it in writing for the dumbass Putin.

Your absurd demands are rejected.

This is why Pooty is Pouty, with his tanks encircling Ukraine.

He is going to get a favor large EU surprise when he invades, with the Russian economy and people taking the hit for Pouty.

[Rockingham]

As with all dictators, retired and dying peacefully in bed of old age is against the odds, the one thing that their wealth and power cannot assure In Putin's nightmares, he sees himself ending like Ceausescu or Qaddafi, in power one day but then suddenly overthrown and casually executed. Ukraine as a NATO member and continuing to develop as a modern, democratic nation advances the risk to Putin by providing Russians with an example of a better future possible without Putin.