> While (too) slowly patching the most severe weaknesses, the West still shows a level of constraint vis a vis Russia that Russia hasn't reciprocated since the Cold War started. The IC/IR/MRBM is just another step in Russian escalation that will go unanswered

> As far as I've seen there has been no reaction on Trump's part regarding new Ukranian boundaries, which suggests some level of agreement with the outgoing administration prior to the decision being announced.

Another sign that the current Russian “Red Lines” are an empty threat designed to scare certain people in the West.

Their red line was clearly broken and they resorted to relatively useless demonstration that simply reduced their ICBM arsenal by one.

Didn't get clearly if there were actually no warheads or they were conventional ones, point stands regardless