NONSENSE!! There is NO future in the past. And there should be NO future for NATO states to border Russia. Everything was just fine in the European theatre, Russia was NO threat to anyone, Ukraine and Russia were their largest trading partners, Ukrainians were very happy and FREE, and rebuilding their country with the HELP of Russia, THEN, along comes the USA promoting that Ukraine join NATO and promising that we would "HAVE THEIR BACKS", just like we "HAD THE BACKS" of the Afghans. BULLSHIT!! THE SOLUTION: STOP PROMOTING NATO MEMBERSHIP. There was NOT and is NOT ANY legitimate reason for any NATO member to share a border with Russia. it was the US and NATO, using their patsy, Zelensky, that are responsible for this tragedy, NOT Russia.
It seems to me Citizen Putin customarily plays Black. Invading Ukraine does not look like this, but considering that the neocon faction of the US ruling class has been boosting war to destroy the Russian state for several years, when the plan was actually put into action Mr. P decided he had to Do Something and invading Ukraine was Something so he did it. It may be that he thinks he can win a war of attrition against the US -- the US is not in such great shape either, and seems to be machinegunning its feet -- but just as there is a lot of Russia there is also a lot of US, so attrition may take a long time. In any case, one must ask what his alternatives were. Sometimes one must, indeed, Do Something.
NONSENSE!! There is NO future in the past. And there should be NO future for NATO states to border Russia. Everything was just fine in the European theatre, Russia was NO threat to anyone, Ukraine and Russia were their largest trading partners, Ukrainians were very happy and FREE, and rebuilding their country with the HELP of Russia, THEN, along comes the USA promoting that Ukraine join NATO and promising that we would "HAVE THEIR BACKS", just like we "HAD THE BACKS" of the Afghans. BULLSHIT!! THE SOLUTION: STOP PROMOTING NATO MEMBERSHIP. There was NOT and is NOT ANY legitimate reason for any NATO member to share a border with Russia. it was the US and NATO, using their patsy, Zelensky, that are responsible for this tragedy, NOT Russia.
It seems to me Citizen Putin customarily plays Black. Invading Ukraine does not look like this, but considering that the neocon faction of the US ruling class has been boosting war to destroy the Russian state for several years, when the plan was actually put into action Mr. P decided he had to Do Something and invading Ukraine was Something so he did it. It may be that he thinks he can win a war of attrition against the US -- the US is not in such great shape either, and seems to be machinegunning its feet -- but just as there is a lot of Russia there is also a lot of US, so attrition may take a long time. In any case, one must ask what his alternatives were. Sometimes one must, indeed, Do Something.
And he told this in his speech where he's going next. Latvia and Estonia... I wonder what his reason will be for invading them?