We thought through the Ukraine we could swindle Russia out of Sevastopol, a Russian possession since the time of the American revolution. Well, Ukraine is destabilized, Sevastopol is unquestionably Russian, and now the Russians have secured an outlet on the Mediterranean coast and on the flank of Turkey, which we abandoned to ISIS when we tried to pull out of Iraq.
Obama thought he was playing chutes and ladders and the Russians were playing chess. They had to. With the fall of the Soviet Union, as Pat Buchanan pointed out, our neo-cons, instead of cooperating with Russia, moved our tanks up to their front porch (they were still a nuclear peer state, the neo-cons forgot).
Then we thought we would eliminate nuclear weapons to make the world safe for neo-con agression using our then vast superiority of conventional weapons, while simultaneously pulling out of the ABM treat (George Bush and his neocon friends). Well, Russia is not interested in a world dominated by American conventional superiority so they doubled down on the nuclear side.
Putin announced he has nuclear naval forces in the Mediterranean.
So Russia is about to secure a position in the eastern Med, flank NATO in Turkey, and have made the Black Sea exclusively theirs again.
Good job folks. Its deplorable, but spheres of influence are real, some of it was likely inevitable, but the rest is just shear and utter strategic tomfoolery - on our part.
We were outmaneuvered, trying to be too clever by half. Not worth going to nuclear war over. Russia knows that but is afraid Obama is too stupid to know that.
“The fundamental problem is the inept grasp on geopolitical strategy by our national so-called leadership.”
Got that right. US gets sucked into the Middle East, China consolidates in the Far East, where there’s actually some money at stake.
20 minute segment, pretty good analysis.
Needs to be repeated.
Russia has, for a couple of decades, realized that the destabilization of the Middle East and North Africa is not such a good idea, and for years (until recently), went along with UN and Security Council agendas to (supposedly) address those problems.
Turns out that the Russians aren't the ones purchased or intimidated by the Saudi's or HomoFascista Globalists.