@europesays Give the Ukrainians whatever they need.

Russia has been saber-rattling and itching for a showdown for decades. During the first Iraq war, Russia had thousands of observers in Iraq to see how their hardware fared against Western hardware. It was obliterated. It was a joke, a rout. They went home, told what they saw, and the Soviet Union collapsed.

So they want a rematch. Okay. Give it to them and they will collapse again, suddenly.

This is the pattern in Russia. Russian government has a long history of no resilience because of corruption from the top down. It's the epitome of a third-world country. And bear in mind that Russia's entire economy is about the same size as Spain's. (No offense to the Spaniards intended.) They are a paper tiger with some nukes that mostly don't work because...corruption. (Plutonium pits are valuable. Sell 'em.)