Putin has shown almost incredible restraint, but this is because he prefers to defeat his enemies off the battle field. Art of war and all that.
He has been accused of the most appaling attrocities without any evicence, he has seen the harshest sanctions imposed on his economy without justification, and has endured a legion of sabre rattling from across the world. He has also stood by and watched ethnic Russian women and children murderred by the Ukrainian millitary using fied artillary on peoples homes. Check it out of the 2,500 people killed 2000 are innocent civillians killed by the Ukrainian army.
It is likely that he doesn't give a hoot about Ukraine except Crimea, and he is not about to give up his only habour that isn't frozen half the year, after establishing that the inhabitants would much rather be Russia than Ukrainian.
As for the sabre rattling, it's all around him. Putin is simply saying did you forget something in all the axcitement, you are about to engage with a country which has a nuclear arsenal at its desposal, and a formidable tacticle army. Put your sabres away they are of no consequence.
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Putin has shown almost incredible restraint, but this is because he prefers to defeat his enemies off the battle field. Art of war and all that. He has been accused of the most appaling attrocities without any evicence, he has seen the harshest sanctions imposed on his economy without justification, and has endured a legion of sabre rattling from across the world. He has also stood by and watched ethnic Russian women and children murderred by the Ukrainian millitary using fied artillary on peoples homes. Check it out of the 2,500 people killed 2000 are innocent civillians killed by the Ukrainian army. It is likely that he doesn't give a hoot about Ukraine except Crimea, and he is not about to give up his only habour that isn't frozen half the year, after establishing that the inhabitants would much rather be Russia than Ukrainian. As for the sabre rattling, it's all around him. Putin is simply saying did you forget something in all the axcitement, you are about to engage with a country which has a nuclear arsenal at its desposal, and a formidable tacticle army. Put your sabres away they are of no consequence.