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Are you positive that's "the goal"?

Let me apologize for you. I know it's very difficult concept for you to understand, but, try to wrap your head around the fact that, wars are very expensive, in many ways, and there is only so much that a country can put into a war before they feel defeated. And a country that is as poor as Russia is, would have been feeling the pain soon after starting the fight.

I'll put it into simple terms for you. Imagine that you want to buy a house and a yacht and a plane, and you ran out of money after your first purchase,that being the yacht. You would be left very far from achieving your goals, and would be left without a home and a plane. Would you still have enough to buy the house and the plane, or would you get real and stop reaching for that which is out of your reach and means. Entiende??? Capice???

I understand what you feel the goal is; I am suggesting the possibility that the larger goal — a goal which preciptated the encouragement of the (North Atlantic?) nations of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, and Croatia to join NATO — might be a goal other than the immediate goal (as seen through a porthole).