Frankly, I don’t think Russia wants war, and Biden (or whoever is behind him) is pretty confident that Russia won’t go there and therefore that Biden can get away with taunting the Russians and thinking he looks tough by doing so.
I think it’s a dud. It seems that even the Ukrainians don’t want to go along with Biden’s little act.
Also, don’t forget that Russia’s big rival and probably biggest enemy is actually China, not the US. So I think Biden is also doing this to show China which side he’s on. The side of the country where he recently spent $1.3 billion to buy masks and test kits…and it’s not Russia.
Russians are great chess players. US politicians for the most part play checkers. It would be the US that miscalculates by making a foolish move and not having fully thought it out 4,6,8 plys deep, not the Russians.
Russia and China recently held joint military exercises.
Why would one hold joint military exercises with one's "biggest enemy?"
“...It seems that even the Ukrainians don’t want to go along with Biden’s little act...”
Good post! And what about the NATO countries? I don’t see they are preparing for war. I see no excitement. They are actually meeting with the Russians trying to find a peaceful settlement, without any US presence. Only Washington is pushing for conflict.
“I think it’s a dud. It seems that even the Ukrainians don’t want to go along with Biden’s little act.”
I agree, this is all chest bumping for an excuse to keep the MIC in business now that Afghanistan is over. And it helps Russia also. We can’t forget Russia has their own MIC who needs to stay in business and make a buck too. No need for the war machine if there is no demand for it.
Russia provides the only means for us to get our people back and forth to the international space station (since we shut down our shuttle program because it was killing people); this is all theater for us little people. Biden isn’t committing troops to defend Ukraine; the media just goes along with his “playing president” by saying he’s sending troops to “eastern Europe”.
The whole charade with Red China is the same; our “leaders” pretend to threaten them as they expand their control in the Pacific but as long as our store shelves are crammed with cheap lead-painted ChiCom junk you may rest assured our elites and their elites are quite friendly. Those countries bordering Red China would be best served by arranging for their own defensive alliance without the US involved; they are opposing one of our closest “allies” (though no formal treaty exists), and will get no help from us. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, India - they’d be best suited making their own deals with each other (and don’t even tell the US government).