@elston_ Putin has been remarkably restrained - with a hard red line of NO NATO EXPANSION. The insanely stupid "sanctions" and the proxy war against Russia has resulted in a burgeoning Russian "Military Industrial Complex" like the one in the US after WW 2. When Putin in gone, that MIC will want to keep the money flowing - just like the one in the US. So NATO (with US help) has essentially created a future Russia that WILL be "hungry for conflict and chaos", fomenting wars world wide and sending weapons to keep that money flowing . . .