While most us are reminded that Russia has over 100,000 troop ready to march into part of the Ukraine….
Such a move which might have been a fool’s dream in the beginning now seems a muddle the Russian President finds himself in
Putin’s No Chess Master
Eliot Cohen: “Ukraine is a problem for Putin’s Russia not because it may join NATO, but because it is democratizing—slowly, awkwardly, imperfectly—and after 30 years of independence is constructing a new national identity. So, too, have the other former Soviet republics, a number of which (Azerbaijan, for example) have quietly sided with Kyiv.”
“The aim of reconstructing if not the Russian empire, then a 21st-century version of it, is slipping out of Putin’s grip, and he knows it. In many ways, what we’re seeing now from Moscow is a spasm of atavistic postimperial assertion, which, rather like British and French intervention in Egypt in 1956, may begin well but will probably end poorly.”
“The Russian dictator has made demands that he knows cannot be met. He has issued them publicly when such things are usually done in private, meaning that he is looking for a fight on any terms.”
How long is Putin gonna use his troops. To keep him in the spotlight and push the Wedt to possibly do things that might force him react in REAL Unpredictable ways
It is my feeling that Biden has is handling Putin MUCH BETTER than anyone is saying….
Biden has held his intransigence against Putin
He has in doing so he has actually pulled Europe together…..
Not one US soldier has been put on a C-17 to the Ukraine border…..
Reports are the there is little worry in Kiev
Putin is actually trying to get something he’ll never get
The Soviet Union ain’t coming back