and, let this be a warning to nato - if you continue to mess around in the russian sphere of influence, don't start crying when they start destabilizing poland or the baltics; you will have brought that on yourself, and the russian reaction will be justified and correct.

i think they should have retaliated years ago, and that they didn't is a reflection of putin's delusional insistence on working with a hostile west that doesn't respect him or russia in general.

as before, the russians would be smart to shift the conflict out of belarus by starting a hot war somewhere like venezuela, instead. and, america will only have itself to blame for it.