Putin really screwed up giving his morons surface to air missiles that ended up shooting down a bunch of Western Europeans. He burnt his bridges with much of Europe with that. And the second really stupid thing he’s done repeatedly is threaten to cut off natural gas to much of Europe using it as a political weapon way too often. That has a price down the road, and we are now down the road...
Swan song of the red midget.
World wars have been started for similar reasons. Putin’s cozying up to China is definitely worrying. Putin will not go quietly into the night scorned by economic sanctions I don’t think. Our world is becoming a scarier and scarier place. There Is the sense of leading to a crescendo of sorts with a very bad outcome.
Could be the U.S.
This is what happens when a weak nation (yes, the US is weak, economically & leadership) continues to dictate policy to other countries, particularly those policies dealing with their own security. I've commented here before that if the US actually undertook the policy needed to deal with Mexico that hypocritically it would be alright for Russia to dictate how the US would do so.
All our policies are doing are driving Russia and China together, when our policies should be doing precisely the polar opposite.
Our children will pay the price.