For reasons none of the above you stated!
Why then, after all he *deliberately* did to strengthen Russia’s defenses, while at the same time all-but trashing ours, would he want us to go to war with them, if not, at least in his twisted little American-hating mind, for them to somehow come out ahead?
It would be like a boxing manager helping his boxer’s opponent by slipping steroids in his drink, while he dropping a sleeping pill in his guy’s, then pushing for a fight between them. Wouldn’t you think something was up in that case?