But why? My analogy would be walking up to my neighbor and saying "I hope you never get out of line because I keep an 8 shot 12 gage pump for people who do."
This does not seem like a bright move from my perspective. Particularly with Russia.
In the case of Russia, you may be right. But the Russians have been on our target list all along and they know it. My comments were particularly about the new members of the target list.