2. The Russian political elite think power is *everything*. Power means you assert yourself; not asserting yourself means you're weak. Weak states are not sovereign and deserve what they will inevitably get. They see the West as weak but are now worried they might be wrong.

Everything we can see tells us that Putin is never going to admit that the West is not, in fact, an existential threat to Russia, because he personally depends on the idea. And of all the parts of the West that are seen as an existential threat to Russia, the UK is hated most of all.

U.S. becoming a well-dressed russia?

We do know that trump published this to admit he would shit himself in any military role - right

Russia wipes its ass with international law, and we in NATO nations, help Moscow flush it down the toilet.