"It was a threat we couldn't accept, it was a threat directly to our border. Everything showed that we are dealing with Nazis and we have to do something about it," Putin said, circling back to his rhetoric that one of the Kremlin's key goals is to "de-nazify" Ukraine.
I honestly don't know which is scarier. That fool,who just happens to be THE fool in charge of Russia's military would spout such nonsense,or that the rest of the Russian leadership SEEMS to be going along with it.
I capitalized "seems" because none of us ever know what is going on in secret in the background,and for all we know,the big boys in the Politburo are planning on removing him from office. I sincerely hope this paragraph is the one that applies to what is happening in the real world,behind the scenes.