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This is where I stopped reading. Framing global politics through this lens is silly. Russia isn't your cheating ex - they're a global power making strategic decisions based on their material interests, just like every other nation. Trust is just the metric by which we measure how their interests align with our own. And yeah, they're uh... on the other side of the war. Of course there is no trust.
If what you want to say is that Russia's victory would somehow incentivize them to conduct a campaign of imperial expansion, explain how. If your intent was simply to tell us that we shouldn't trust those dirty, no good, double-crossin' Russians, okay, cool. Mission accomplished.