Illarionov

"...вы проявили цивилизованность, пошли на какие-то компромиссы - для них это только признак слабости - а значит, надо давить дальше. Поэтому надо зарубить себе это на носу: чем раньше вы их "пошлете", тем в большей безопасности вы будете."
В.Буковский.

"From what I have seen of our Russian friends and Allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness. For that reason the old doctrine of a balance of power is unsound. We cannot afford, if we can help it, to work on narrow margins, offering temptations to a trial of strength."
W.S.Churchill, "Iron Curtain" Speech at Westminster College. March 5, 1946.