| | | That is a good history lesson from the formation of NATO, but even bigger history lessons are needed regarding Barbarossa, WWI, the Crimean war of 1856, and of course the 1812 Overture of 1812 fame by Napoleon and his Grande Armee. One could go back further and consider the Golden Horde activities in the region, going as far west as Hungary. There were also many other conflicts hither and yon. Russians cannot possibly have a benign view of the USA/NATO horde swarming around them, threatening and abusing, denigrating and hating.
If USA/NATO/Eurostan were at least friendly, Russia might not be too panicked, but for some weird psychotic reason, Americans in particular are positively rabid about Russia. I guess it stems from Zbig and hordes of others who suffered horribly at Stalin's, Lenin's and co's mass murderous totalitarianism. Ukrainians were mass-culled, sent to Siberia etc, as were swarms of others such as from Crimea which was NOT Ukrainian. I first learned of Ukrainians' suffering from a Ukrainian man I worked with in Ottawa way back in 1975.
So yes, the USSR was a murdering threatening monster with Klaus Schwab aspirations. Russia now is not a threatening monster. It's 150 million more or less, low GDP people spread over a vast country albeit armed with gigatons of atomic bombs. They have a falling population. They are at grave risk from China taking over. 1,300 million Made in China vs 150 million in Russia. Russia is only the second significant figure in China's population and economically is an also-ran dependent on selling hydrocarbons.
If I was in charge of Russia, I would have my nuclear weapons ready to go. I would already have done a demonstration high altitude night time explosion over population centres in the West [London and Washington] to get them to stop grinning and even laughing on tv while they play arm-chair general over the horrors developing in Ukraine and to get them thinking a bit more seriously.
It's a global war, not a war in Ukraine. USA thinks it can just proxy the slaughter of Russians who have gone into the Ukraine slaughterhouse trap set by USA as they did for Saddam. Russia cannot win in a conventional war and must go grand scale MAD to get a truce established with Crimea and Donbass removed from NATO.
In this game of chicken, Putin has to throw the steering wheel out the window - committing to the crash. Now it's for USA to decide whether to go head-on into MAD or steer out of the way. USA should not have forced Russia into this grave tragedy.
On the bright side, I guess some people would say that if push comes to shove and Washington ceases to exist and there are just Preppers left across the country popping their heads out of their bunkers after the smoke and radioactive dust has cleared, that's not all bad. Survivors wouldn't be getting a load of blather about The Greenhouse Effect/Global Warming/Climate Change, nor gender identity self-indulgent hysteria over pronouns. Ted Kaczynski would say "Told you so".
This reminds me of the attack on Waco = a lot of fun for Janet Reno and gang to attack them, burning it down to save the children and show who's boss. Ooops a daisy, "Invictus" became famous via Tim McVeigh after he did a Russian MAD on Oklahoma ATF. Was it worth it to attack the Wacky Wacos? Maybe a nice cup of tea and discussion with the cultists would have been better. Victoria Nuland is loving it now and caused it. Hey, I thought when women rule, life is supposed to be lovely and nice. Hillary = "We Came, We Saw, He Died, cackle cackle cackle...."
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