[Yeah. Right. Sure. That’s what Putin was going for.
Do you hear yourself ?]
After Munich, when Hitler lied about his ambitions with the line “This is my last territorial demand in Europe”, he wasn’t doing anything exceptional. Conquerors lie all the time about their outsized ambitions. They’re not recreational liars - they lie to make it more difficult for future targets of those ambitions to unite against them, before it’s too late. Far easier to defeat your enemies one at a time, combine your resources with theirs, and move on to the next target.
Yeah. Right. Sure.
Putin’s aim was to take on NATO.
Guess you don’t hear yourself.