Putin does what he wants to do and I don’t think he’s easily played by Nuland. In fact, it’s kinda insulting to think so, right? I mean, seriously? Putin was played by that woman? Yeah, right … I really don’t think so.
Instead, I think his psychology is that of a collector and, as Russia’s czar for life, he has the ability to collect whatever he wants and he has. He’s an extremely rich and politically powerful man.
Most collectors never sell and consider it a personal tragedy if their collection is broken up. If that happens, they usually go back to collecting as before as soon as possible. It’s who they are. It’s what they do. It’s their nature and so it is with Putin.
Putin has spoken about the break up of the Soviet Union and the loss of those nations that had been assimilated and were part of that collection. He considers it a tragedy that should never have happened.
I think his nature is to do whatever he can and whatever it takes to put that collection back together again, which he is doing now.
To that end, he most likely will continue to use their old playbooks to make that happen step by step, as he has done in Ukraine for a decade or so now, the same as with last century’s Soviet conquests and assimilations.
Putin is sick with his MRSA virus (Make Russia Soviet Again) and it is necessary to contain and quarantine him so that his sickness doesn’t spread … again.
You ascribe to the typical NATO propoganda that Russia is going to invade Europe, which is delusional BS designed to scare voters so the Military Industrial Complex can continue to take a continuing share of resources. NATO rejected Russian membership. Russia is not interested in taking over Poland or any other country. Russia made it quite clear from 1991 before Putin that they wanted good relations with the EU. The US was losing it’s economic hold on the EU. We have isolated the EU from Russia to keep them in our economic sphere, and at the same time we have destroyed the EUs economies. The USA has become War, Inc. Our only actual non-recessionary sector of the economy is the defense/aircraft sectors. We are in the midst of rearming and sell our old equipment to Ukraine so we can buy more new stuff. The US needs to find a way to sustain itself economically without the defense industires as the economic engine. All we have heard since Obama was Russia and China bad, and we will go to war with them, one after the other.
The US and EU tried to buy up Russia, buy politicians and it was stopped when Putin was elected. Russia has reclaimed herself from the West at great cost. Ukraine is suffering that same fate, being bought up by the West and reduced to a vasal state like Africain contries.
Blinken told Lavrov that the US would put missiles in Ukraine and there was nothing Russia could do, becasue NATO would do as it pleased in NATO friedly countries. The invasion happened the following week.
Piss poor diplomacy by an American of Ukrainian Origins, e.g., Blinken (and Nuland), have brought the world form one that was run by the US with challenges from China economically, to one where even India has decided that they will join Russia economically and China is okay with that.
The US has squandered our position of leadership in the world. Endless wars. Lawlessnes of the DNC domestically did not translate itself into international politics. All the BS the US forces upon the world is being rejected. Nobody wants the immigration, LGBT, or Globalism.
These here United States of AmeriKa needs to learn to live peacefully with the world. We are War, Inc. and Death, LLC.