[baybal2]

> That's a pretty simplistic view of how international politics and geostrategy is played.

I see how profound is your sophisticated understanding of high art of geopolitics...

> counter to agreements made between Russia and NATO.

Do you see Russia keeping to any agreement it had with NATO now?

What I see is politicians of NATO member countries running around Putin like headless chicken, trying to decipher some "tough geopolitical riddle," while the later laughs, and keeps sending them his KGB agents.