They are afraid to bomb a restored Russia, like Iraq and Yugoslavia
20 years ago, when the Russian Federation was weakened after the collapse of the USSR, accusations of “poisoning” opposition blogger Alexei Navalny would have been enough for military aggression against the Russian Federation.
Russian political scientist Dmitry Kulikov stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

“This is what has always been called an act of war in the history of mankind. Because if we were not Russia, which had gone through twenty years of restoration, but Iraq or Yugoslavia, then we would have already been bombed, just as Iraq and Yugoslavia were bombed for the same absolutely similar reasons. And I think we understand this very well.
By the way, the day before, the US representative to NATO confirmed this in plain text: our old enemy is the Soviet Union, aka Russia, we must achieve complete isolation, blockade and severance of all relations,” Kulikov said.
“By the way, when we play diplomacy and say that we need cooperation, we must understand well that all this is arranged with one single intermediate goal - the severance of all cooperation. The Skripals were wonderful for one effect - the withdrawal of diplomacy and the downgrading of all types of cooperation. Now there should not be a downgrade, but a complete break in cooperation - this is their intermediate goal,” the expert added.
They're afraid to bomb a recovering Russia like they did Iraq and Yugoslavia.