we encourage the stupid provocations, quite dangerous in the current heated situation, and continue to genuine diplomatic efforts aimed at european security. what does this tell you. it s not a surprise the russian statement would be like that. they are masters of not only disinformation but of sort of the me too-ism and claiming the west is doing exactly what they, themselves, are doing and acting provocatively. it s provocative to send 130,000 troops to your neighbor s border for no apparent immediate reason. this is a manufactured crisis. i would say that this is part of the russian playbook that goes back to soviet times when it comes to seeking to install a pro-moscow puppet government, exactly what the soviets did when they marched into hungary during the cold war, when they