Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
This is probably one of the best analysis I have seen on Russia and Putin in the last six months.

http://www.cfr.org/russian-federatio...not-war/p33392
So what you're saying is that Russia is a state with identified interests and has assigned strategies and resources to fulfilling those interests... in other words, a rational state. Why are you reversing yourself from your previous position that Russia is an "irrational" state?