I don't personally detect a sense of expansionism from Russia but I do see them in economic trouble and mimicking what the US does when its in trouble, it looks for a foreign bogeyman to blame and distract its citizens attention and then starts a proxy war.
What ....and we don,t.........shit i forgot no army......but we do have TAs some say orders have be placed with ford for pickups.....old models of the P100...which were crap....but toyota could not match price, in any event they could not meet the delivery slot ....to busy......my arse ...we could just have cardboard cut-outs of para,s and cut even more.....and inflatible dingys , balsawood aircraft, options i could go on and on.
Got to admit I have absolutely no idea what on earth you are writing about or if you are taking nw medications, so I'l drop off this conversation.