There's been fighting over Crimea for years. It doesn't ring true as a cause of new behavior. One thing that is new though is Russians waiting in mile long lin

There's been fighting over Crimea for years. It doesn't ring true as a cause of new behavior. One thing that is new though is Russians waiting in mile long lines for petrol while they watch their refineries explode. Moscow may be trying to widen the war as a domestic distraction from that not looking good. At least if they mix it up with NATO they can say sorry we're in a war with NATO rather than the embarrassment of we picked on a country 1/4 our size and now they are beating us.