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~Bush dealt with Putin better than Obama. Do you agree with that?

The promise of capitalism has to start meaning something or the people who were used to communism will want to return to it. There are many many poor people in both Ukraine and Russia. I don’t think strong sanctions will work. In fact they will have an opposite effect.

Russia is not as weak as it is poor. They are a country with a lot of pride — good and bad. I think it is foolish and dangerous to escalate tensions. Does anyone really want to go to war with them?~

WOW. We finally have someone who have a clue on foreign policy and he is no less but a Spirit of FR:)
Maybe we haven’t yet run out of common sense here?

I’m a firm believer that to be positive and to lose interest in leftism a society needs to sustain prolonged economic growth and reach past about $20,000 average annual income.

People who are well off due to their own labor and enterprise aren’t that much fond about grabbing and redistribution, and as far as they have something to lose they are interested in a rule of law and political liberties to have influence and control with the government to limit its reach.

Poor people doesn’t need anything of the above and they are happy to see the rich who are doing better than they are to be looted ‘for a common good’ - which is leftism all about.

That is a primary reason why economic sanctions aren’t actually helping and it is also why instilling democracy into poverty-ridden hellholes never really worked.