I said incentive. You seem to imply conquest of land is incentive. As a European, I always found the conceit in Europe astonishing. There's literally no incentive for Russia to expand. No resources, old population, every single nation is essentially insolvent. I love Europe but I find people there seem to have trouble seeing reality at tines. In the past 20 years, the only thing innovated is regulation, censorship and increased methods of taxation. I fail to see any uncentive. Russia doesn't even have enough population to fully exploit their vast resources and maybe NATO is irrelevant and trying to look for enemies to maintain relevance. Every time I go back, all I see is stagnation. Its sad but if Europeans started recognising their enemy is in Brussels, there might be less violence.