Rune: Do you think the price is worth it?

Sounds to me like you just made another “lower your trousers” proposition.

Russia has been selling weapon systems to Syria and Iran for years. To say if we bend over that they won’t do it … why they did it before when all was peachy peaceful and unicorns were drinking from kool-aid streams?

As for Afghanistan, it will be less costly if they are out of the picture than if we have to pay for theit paricipation with Georgia, Ukraina, etc, with a potential that they srew us in Afghanistan in some way.