Raw LLM Responses

>going to attack That's the part you fail to understand. The one and only thing Putin has proven good at is salami slicing, hybrid warfare, and his "little green men" strategy. He sucks at full-scale warfare. But he knows Europe is currently not yet prepared to fight off a really aggressive strategy of everything from weaponized immigration busloads (at insane new scales) to heavy (daily) airspace violations. All while he picks off Europe's weaker democracies, election by election and waiting for stronger openings. Into which he will make risky gambles of various degrees. Watching any video on the specifics of Russia's current industrial economy, banking, axis support, and civilian-side inflation will tell you he cannot wind down from a wartime system without an immediate and fierce crash. While he's getting more violent and brazen each year. He's delusional, cruel, and ambitious. And has shown no sign of softening. Had he shown signs of genuine personal change in the last few years, we could consider the opposite of what he is. But until then, it's immoral to consider such as the likely default. It is giving him a benefit of the doubt he has not earned and assuming nigh *de jure* hypotheticals. You sound convinced so I'll believe you are, but please don't so rapidly forget Georgia, Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, then the full-scale invasion. The man who always invades as much as a situation allows (since 2008) will do what is in his nature. I know it's deeply uncomfortable to realize we may be dealing with a true scorpion, one riding[ on the frog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog) of Europe across the river. But we are. We must drop this insistence that he's a strictly rational geopolitical actor engaging in a moderate's spin upon the wheel of game theory. Some of your points are part of his calculus, but so is a deep degree of imperial delusion, warped levels of personal pride, and the most dangerous thing of all within the p