Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

Here again, the russian state begs to differ in policy, statement, and act.  There are no "other means" to be open to in the pursuit of territorial expansion by reconstituting the borders of the former soviet empire.

Bullshit, they offered NATO an agreement that Ukraine won’t join the NATO.  NATO said no, because NATO charter blah blah blah, as if an outside power feeling existential threat from you should naturally prioritize your charter in whom they had no part, over their own existential interest as great power.