The u.n. Security Council, Veto and the General Assembly.

The U. N gives him, gives russia a institutionalized influence through its security council, veto and the general assembly. Has many non allied countries that could be persuaded to a russian line with the proper combination of rhetoric and inducements. So an outcome that not just putton, but yelton, the kind of 19 nineties, a best case scenario that Russia hoped for was a movement away from american led security institutions like nato.