Thanks for the comments. Russia is once again being Russia. It acts in ways that alienate it from the West, and that is counter to it’s own interests. It’s just nutty policy IMO.
Russia has as much to fear from terrorist states as we do, yet it has backed the terrorists for forty years that I am aware of.
Medvid provided a rather intersting factoid recently. Since last July (or close to it), Israel has received one rocket entering it’s territory every thirty minutes (on the average). What state would put up with that? Russia?
Putin is a nut-job. I had hoped he would turn out to be an enlightened Russian capable of bringing it into the 21st century. Instead he seems determined to take it into the 20th.
Putin is a classic Russian Tsar.