They should know, Russia. It's going to be, well... obvious at some point and they're going to be hurt you weren't honest with them.

[And goodness knows her siblings do "hurt" in ways more dramatic and difficult to watch than most other nations could dream up. He'd rather not experience that, thanks. And the time has long since passed that he could just sit at home and look to the north and pretend everything south and west of him didn't exist.]