vague and culturally similar neighboring country where your population and your country had lots of family ties, lots of are a lot, lots of reason to identify with one another. and in that large, culturally similar neighboring country they recently threw out the pro russia puppet later that you had installed there. they took economic steps to ally themselves with europe more than with you. they then elected, by huge margin, a popular, russian speaking guy who wants ties with the west and europe and the united states. a new, young, charismatic leader who has said that tonight he was elected, that everyone in the former soviet states should look at his election and know that anything is possible, that anything is possible. even in the former soviet world, thanks to democracy. how does that look to you if you are vladimir putin? from the corner that vladimir putin has painted himself into, in the country has ruined, the threat posed by a free,