Bill Burns warned the U.S. government this would happen in 08. A bunch of Clinton's advisor's warned against eastern expansion of NATO too. Putin's behavior is unreasonable but it isn't t irrational.I wouldn't hang my hat on that word too much. It's translated and the context is really that we didn't really want to go to war but they forced us to go to war. We aren't the bad guys they are making us do this. Stop making me hit you.