We have often asked ourselves this question. Why doesn’t Russia finish off Ukraine and be done with it? This article discusses many complications of Russian international policies.
However, a big part of the reason is that Putin still does not believe the United States is not an enemy of Russia the way Iran believes. It is sad to us that the US is a collapsing empire that will drag any country close by down along with it. The image is of Gulliver and Russia, entangled with the Lilliputians.
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