Russia is a very rich country, they’re doing very well, economy is better than ever. They’ve built new factories churning out tanks and other mil hardware. Puntin’s popularity is around 80+%. Food is cheap and plentiful. Families and children are encouraged, and the LBQSTWTF movement is listed as a terrorist organization and and “gay” and pedo propaganda is illegal. And Russia refuses to go along with the international banking cartel, or any globalism at all. Russia is a dire threat to the “New World Order” just be its existence.
This is why the “west” hates Russia. Not because they want to encroach into Europe, which is a lie. Russia wants the borders set by NATO to be respected, I think it was the Minsk agreement that mandated that the countries bordering Russia were to remain neutral; ie not NATO members.
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Thank you for clearly articulating your position.
My judgement does not land there, because I think all politicians, including Putin, are guilty until proven otherwise of being totally motivated by power.
The problem geopolitically (i.e., relative to geography) is that there are no defensible, natural barriers (like mountains or major river) between Russia and Germany (or NATO); therefor, both sides want lots or territory to create a buffer for national security.
The results have been for the last 100 years that neither side is ever satisfied.
According to Oliver Stone, the USSR wanted friendly relations with the U.S. after fighting as allies in WWII, but instead there was the Cold War. Admittedly, if there was ever anything to Stone's idea that the two could have been friends, then the argument is so much stronger now that the USSR is gone along with the Russian flavor of communism.
BTW, Neither NATO nor the U.S. were parties to the Minsk protocols, which were an effort in 2014 and 2015 to stop the fighting in Donetsk. Moreover, according to the Moscow Times, the sides have never agreed as to the meaning of Minsk I or Minsk II