We really have to stop taking this authoritarian clown serious. He might have ICBM, but his demands are so outrages and so far away from reality, that he cant be taken serious. He is a Bully offering his victim a week of not-bullying, if he gets big parts of his lunchmoney and demands that his victim is not getting into a clique that could protect him from the bulling. That is a really bad deal.
Russians have lost reality since 1991. Most Russians define their country as a world power. How can they still think they are on par with America or China when it comes to worldpolitics and strength. It is straight delusional. They are on one step with North Korea.
Do not give Russia one Inch. We increased the sanctions bit by bit. Russia did not respond in any sane way. Let them rot. I lose my patients with a bully that is that stubborn. They will falter sooner or later and we documented their downward spiral for anyone who has questions in history class in the next 30 years. Imagine getting dealt the cards putin had in 2000, and find yourself 24 years later in this dead end street. What a loser. You could have been the Asian Canada... and he choosed to grift from his own country and play power games. Fuckin Moron. Learned nothing.