Can you produce the full list of their targets
In no particular order.... the entire former mess known as the CCCP.... priorities being (in rough order) the Baltics, Georgia, (North) Kazakhstan, Moldavia.
Moldavia was going to be next before the westward drive was stopped just past Xerson and the Black Sea was eliminated as an attack route to Odesa...
Of course the CCCP as a dysfunctional mess needed satellites to try to stay afloat and Poland figures very prominently there... (along with Germany which is why putain put so much effort into buying its political class).
You don't think a robust deterrent would manage future Russian aggression
Name a robust deterrent and I'll give my best guess....
But I think we're well beyond the negotiating phase to be frank, see my comment on westerns strategy to disable russia..
The thing is by now russia is no longer working on interest and is eating into its capital... or eating its seed corn if you prefer that metaphor...
The idea that russia has to go to Iran.... for weapons is pretty degrading for a one time military superpower...
And worse yet... they're doing real, almost irreparable demographic harm to themselves.
Forget fighting age men, to survive a country needs breeding age men and the russian government has gotten a bunch killed and driven off many times more and most of those probably aren't going to be coming back.
russian military tactics evolved when there were millions and millions of spare young men they could throw into the meat grinder.... now meat is rationed and they're still throwing it away... all for the vanity of a crazy old man.
tragic when you think about it.... but I stopped caring about russia's well-being on feb 24, 2022...