Commentary: There's a bigger Russian threat than meddling. Vladimir Putin is acting like he wants war

Russia's meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was an attack on our sovereignty and can't be ignored. But we shouldn't allow it to distract us from the larger threat Russian President Vladimir Putin poses to both the United States and the world.

To understand that threat, we have to examine Putin's motivations. His policies are dictated by deeply held convictions and ambitions rooted less in Russian patriotism than in Soviet patriotism. In his mind, the end of the Soviet Union was a profound historical injustice, visited upon his country by plotters