I am coming around to this line of thinking. I think, and I know this may piss some off and I am not trying to derail this thread, but some of the difficulties we are having and have had with Russia is old fashion racism. If they were doing exact same thing but were an Asian or Middle East country, we would be much quicker to blame the entire country itself and view their entire society as being barbaric, dangerous, and likely never able to accept the concepts of a modern, free "westernized" country. But the Russians, whelp, they look like us and border Europe. So we blame their leaders and think they are just waiting to be free and follow the true framework of a "westernized" country, even though the reality is they may be more like a China or an Afghanistan and are decades and decades and even centuries away from such a thing.