Thanks for the reply. The question really is - why Putin’s Russia? Our economy is now built on fake money so we can’t afford another Cold War. Are we sure Putin has the same intentions as his Soviet predecessors? Do you trust Obama to kick this off?
I’ll give you my take in order.
Putin is not a western style Capitalist so he’s not like cuddly puppy. He’s kills or jails his opposition just like the others.
Politically he is more dangerous because he has no communist party to keep him in line. He runs the whole show so what he does is up to him. One bad day, and you could have chaos. Even Khrushchev had minders.
We will have to afford a cold war because he is waging one. Testing, probing Obama right now.
Lastly, I don’t think Obama has the stones or the inclination to intervene in any serious way. If he does it will have plausible deniability and cannot be traced back to him. Maybe some untraceable second hand arms and some rhetoric. I suspect all they will get is rhetoric and I think Putin knows this.
When the time is right I think Putin will suddenly take the high road, rub Obamas face in it and keep what he has occupied and leave Western Ukraine. He can accomplish the rest politically. So in the end Obama loses.
Putin wins..
Also I think it’s too late to do anything. that train left the station when Putin moved in to the black sea ports and we did nothing. And I mean nothing. Not even decent rhetoric.