Is Russia a Stable Agent in the World?

i worry very much that impoverishing russia makes russia much less a stable agent in the world. And we should think about those consequences too, about how much we are punishing the russian government. To mahir's point, one of the things we have to try to figure out, and it's so difficult to do from afar, is, how does a man like president putten imagine his legacy? I think that the russian president wants to be in text books 500 years from now, describing him as a figure who rest rd russia to greatness and respect and dignity of a national kind in the world,. Even though they have an economy the size of texas or