I don't think either Putin or Hillary Clinton is crazy. We have seen brinkmanship before. Both sides backed down. Remember Khrushchev pounding his shoe on the podium in Iowa during his US visit, swearing "We will bury you!"? He thought he could push the young JFK around and put strategic nukes in Cuba. That's how far the Russians are willing to push. But, no farther. As I said, Putin isn't suicidal, nor is Clinton. Trump, I fear, would be rash. Putin has much to lose. He would not nuke our carrier group, nor would he do more than send a conventional cruise missile at it, perhaps as a test of our navy's SEARAM anti-missile system.