That wasn’t for you, Anna. It was for the lurkers who can’t quite grasp it.
You can call me Alex. Ann, my wife, doesn’t post here.
I agree that we are at our, possibly, weakest point militarily, but since neither side wants a shooting war, it is beside the point. I think Putin miscalculated the strength of the Western institutions that go by precedents, laws, treaties, and won’t let him get away with military aggression. He will get a Second Cold War out of this. That, I think did not enter his plans.