I wonder what you're being downvoted for here exactly. As much as the DC foreign policy consensus likes to portray anything short of complete encirclement and e

I wonder what you're being downvoted for here exactly. As much as the DC foreign policy consensus likes to portray anything short of complete encirclement and expanding NATO right up to Russia's borders as "appeasement," everything you point out is true and a major counterpoint to the idea the Trump administration just gives Russia whatever it wants.