The first thing for everyone to realise: love or hate America and the UK, and plenty of UK folks hate American things, whatever, the UK and the USA have an actual signed treaty with Ukraine and Russia.
Signed by Yeltsin, Clinton, Major (I think) and the Ukrainian leader of the time, you can argue about motivations and whatever but this is a signed treaty. Even if the Americans and Brits aren't thinking about honouring it first and foremost, still they're abiding by their contract from the 1990s.
Russia's government in lockstep, showing Lavrov in NYC, Putin in the Kremlin and the Russian spokesperson for the Russian embassy in Paris, who was in studio. Sorry can't remember his name, looks like Bill hemmer from fox News or Clark Kent or something.
Look you can be in lockstep and agree on something and be wrong. In this case, being right or wrong is not about political careers in Washington and American media spin. In this case right or wrong could result in an overthrow of the Russian government. At the end of the day, Putin wants to be the boss and isn't showing us he's thinking about handing control of Russia over to the next person and when.
None in their right mind believes Putin's spin about the west trying to destroy Russia but it is true that this is really how Russians see things. But the mistake of the Russian strategic military leadership and political leadership from Putin, in my opinion, I'm just an observer. Is trying to buffer the plains from Ukraine to stop a tank attack from Germany or NATO is WW2 thinking. I think Putin really wants the considerable natural gas in those four regions he's trying to annex because he wants to exploit that gas for Russia. We're talking about billions of dollars of natural gas deposits.
Aside from the USA and UK involvement in Ukraine as per their treaty signed with Yeltsin in the 1990s, we see Germany slightly changing their posture from WW2 and Finland has joined NATO. I don't think it's a big deal. Putin wants to send prisoners into battle, Russia has a non professional, corrupt, brutal army, let Putin purify them and Russia. War will purify them, that's for sure.
I further understand journalists around the world have their little flings and affairs and adulteries and little ego bubbles, oh so special. However military people on the ground and military tacticians far away from the battleground, that's a separate thing from dopey journalists. Further I cannot see real resistance within Russia for Putin's position. Putin can generalise about 'the West' but there's a patchwork of widespread nations and alliances unsympathetic towards him. Consider Japan.
It's like I made a scientific breakthrough, consider that neither Clark Kent nor Superman ever say 'get farked yer farken shluts' like an Abbo. That might explain the x-ray vision, hmmmm.....
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