Putin is broke, out gunned, outspent 20-1, the pariah of the world, guilty as hell and the virulently anti Russia, ex brutalized Warsaw Pact NATO members are about to be on your border, ready to kick your door in, 300 hundred miles from Moscow. This is deadly serious business for Russia not the wag the dog PR campaign it is in DC.
“ex brutalized Warsaw Pact NATO members are about to be on your border, ready to kick your door in”
Again with this strange fantasy of yours that Poland and Estonia are going to suddenly become warmongers against the peaceloving and isolationist Russian totally-not-an-empire.
You captured the situation very well. The danger is that Putin may feel he has to do something drastic thinking he can save his own skin. Like I said earlier . . . very uneasy.
No sane person believes NATO is interested in invading Russia.