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No, Russia has demonstrated that whilst they are somewhat constrained by real world ramifications of their actions, they do not care even slightly about positive opinion over seas. Meanwhile, America leverages their commanding global presence as a counterweight to negative overseas opinion. They...

No, you just didn't read. I'm sure you can though, try harder. There's a difference between caring about something, and being entirely governed by it. Though, if you really want to equate a war that had mixed reception with say, brazenly sending assassins to another country to whack a political...

You think America doesn't care about foreign opinion? That is a novel take. And, the end result was Russia didn't get Crimea, because England stopped them, because they cared enough and had the stomach to act on international issues. So...?

I'd like to think Putin is keeping Sun-Tzu in mind, the bit about appearing strong where you are weak, and building up a large presence slowly and obviously specifically to create the impression he might attack when really he can't for international relations reasons. That's also backed up by...