Great conclusion...
He just need to sit and wait for apple to fall.
But I assume they (west or better said Americans ...remember "fuck the EU") will not leave him alone and they will do everything to provoke military intervention so that they can point to Russia as an assessor.Same old story ...there will be staged massacres and killings as we all witnessed in ex YU and elsewhere...They know Putin's blood will boil and expect him to make a mistake.We'll see if he can avoid it. They say " do not play chess with Russians" but it's hard when other side is cheating.
Americans/west hoped for quick resolution of this situation in Ukraine but...

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