Richard Feynman coined the phrase “tickling the dragon’s tail” to refer to dangerously experimenting with critical mass in fissile material. The same could be said of goading Russia by arming its enemies.
Hardling tickling the dragon any more. It’s tweezering in the last mg of U235 onto the pile to watch the blue glow which means you are now officially dead.
Has Russia EVER hesitated to “goad” us by arming OUR enemies? To this day, they cause trouble for us in Cuba and Venezuela. By Putin’s logic, we ought to be able to invade those countries just as he’s invaded Ukraine.