They asked to join NATO, EU at one point. Perhaps in sheep's clothing, that's a possibility. But maybe our end ambition for what's happening now should be exa

They asked to join NATO, EU at one point. Perhaps in sheep's clothing, that's a possibility. But maybe our end ambition for what's happening now should be exactly this, a Russia integrated into the west, and not a seething pariah (with nukes) cozening up to the equally 'affronted' (as they seem to feel), but much more ambitious and powerful China.