From Alexander Golts, deputy editor of the online newspaper Yezhednevny Zhurnal:
Russia is becoming a lonely pariah without alliances or military might, other than its nuclear weapons. And without any other easy means of achieving its objectives, I am afraid that the Kremlin will constantly try to prove it is just crazy enough to use its nuclear weapons. In short, Russia is turning into a second North Korea, only much, much larger, and far more dangerous.
Read more at Cold War Strategies Are Back in Russia's Playbook | Opinion | The Moscow Times.