Apparently none of these (legitimate and not-so-much) concerns have--in fact--been hashed-out via any one-to-one, private exchanges.
Clearly such face-time Cannot be rebroadcast to anyone (in either camp.) It is the nature of diplomacy that it doesn't work when everyone gets a script.

Thanks for a cohesive presentation of a few other aspects--to issues which we may Not/probably cannot resolve via any 'reasonable' public disclosures.
(Except at IWE, of course.) ;^>

For my own part, I hope that Putin--against his Public-macho displays of aggrieved 2nd-Class status bereavement
--is possessed-of a built-in sanity-Editor, one capable of Patience (that is.)
Should he go 100% with Ivan (the Terrible one), and with all those enhanced-nukes: global-warming could be enhanced a few thousand mega-tonnes thermal equivalents. :-/

May (also) BHO refrain from any Ultimata; it's the anti-gemütlichkeit path to Perdition City.

{{sigh}} Why fight over Real Estate? when the planetary-bearer of those squiggles on a chart shall trump as surely as ... the deck-chair rearrangement on that large ship
didn't.

Scale!! without relativity? is meaningless.