"We aren't threatening anyone, we aren't going to attack anyone, we aren't going to take anything from anyone. The growing Russian military power will guarantee global peace." - Vladimir Putin, President of Russian Republic. 

ICHEOKU says how about Ukraine or is what is going on in Eastern Ukraine not threatening  and an attack? How about Georgia or is what went down in South Ossetia and Abkhazia not threatening and an attack? Were the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia not taken from Georgia? Was Crimea not taken from Ukraine and Eastern Ukraine Donesk region and other territories within the same greedy sight? Are these not other countries territories that Vladimir Putin forcibly invaded, seized and annexed or is there any other definition of taking which is only known to Vladimir Putinya? This is exactly the reason the West does not and cannot trust Vladimir Putin on his words this time because his words do not mean a thing. He lacks honor and dishonorable people are hardly any good negotiating partners. 

Vladimir Putin is not a leader that can be trusted to keep and honor his words. The old KGB spy is as coy and sly as he has always been; and again playing his old zero some game. Simply not believable nor could he be trusted. Hopefully, he will not miscalculate and overplay his hand as there is a new sheriff in town. America has a new president in the White House and no longer the sissy Obama that will have more leeway after the elections. The old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics did not win the old Cold War and the new Russia will not win a Hot War should his cunning eventually provoke a shooting war between Russia and America which peradventure means the West. 

But hey, after 19 years in power and the life of the average Russian has not dramatically improved or changed from the depravity that was their fate following the collapse of the Soviet Union, his current bluster is a much needed distraction from Russians' pressuring domestic issues and problems. So going into the March 18, 2018 presidential election, he has to pull the only trick in his bag of tricks to keep the Russian people spellbound, confused, dazed and remain submissive to the only knight that will protect and save them from the bogeyman America and the West. What a pitiful and traumatized Russians under the jackboot of an emergent petite dictator Vladimir Putinya.