In reply to kennycan.
OK, gotcha. Fact is none of us know anything but what we're fed by the media, which typically has some objective or other rather than the simple dissemination of the news.
I've read all the scenario's I think. And none make any real sense. But then, as my old secretary* would say, they're russian, they never do "sense".
*russian, highly educated, multi lingual, slipped out before the iron curtain fell