Posted on 03/28/2022 4:53:15 AM PDT by Jyotishi
Edited on 03/28/2022 11:42:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Russia has added a new chapter in the post-Cold War Europe under the leadership of Vladimir Putin. His decision to invade Ukraine on February 24 has altered the US-led global liberal power calculus. The quiet “Spy Guy” Putin, who took over as the Prime Minister in ailing Boris Yeltsin’s Government in 1999, was largely unnoticed by the West. Probably, the policymakers in the Western capitals could not visualise how this man would pose a serious threat to both the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the days to come. Putin’s was a solo journey laced with a hidden agenda of reclaiming the lost Soviet empire. Thus, he quickly took up the reins as the second President of the newly created Russian Federation in the year 2000, immediately after Yeltsin left the scene as he was seriously unwell.
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“Putin’s was a solo journey laced with a hidden agenda of reclaiming the lost Soviet empire.”
I read to that point, stopped and cleaned the BS off of my shoes. Putin, with his offensive juggernaut, is coming for East Germany. Utter, complete disinfo garbage.
In any top down ran organization where “success” is rewarded and “failure” is punished lying to the boss becomes an art form.
I am sure Putin has been getting glowing reports on his military about all the training his troops are getting, how supply depots are full, about how well maintained his planes, ships and vehicles are...then he tries to use them and like an old car with a new paint job it all falls apart.
His troops are not trained, his equipment has not been maintained and the supply depots are empty.
Aside from all that, we are seeing what individuals can do in a war if they have anti-tank and anti-air missiles.
I read to that point, stopped and cleaned the BS off of my shoes. Putin, with his offensive juggernaut, is coming for East Germany. Utter, complete disinfo garbage.
You need to listen to what Putin says. He’s quite clear:
In his annual state of the nation address to parliament and the country’s top political leaders, Putin said the Soviet collapse also was a tragedy for Russians.
“First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” Putin said. “As for the Russian people, it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory.
East Germany was never part of the Soviet Union. Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic republics, and the Stans were.
You really think if the plan is to reconstitute the Soviet Union, Putin would stop at the old USSR border. You realize to successfully overrun the Baltic’s, enslave Ukraine and reacquire Belarus could only be the result of Putin’s successful waging of WWIII in Europe. Why would he stop with the USSR or the Warsaw Pact nations. It’s sheer lunacy to attribute these unattainable goals to the Russians. What is much more likely is the aggressive, expansionist NATO behemoth recklessly starting WWIII as it rolls out of Ukraine in a vain attempt to fulfill the neocon wet dream of regime change in Moscow. One would have to never look up from the media feeding trough to believe such a ridiculous premise of Putin planning to forcefully reconstituting the Soviet Union.
Imperial Russia’s border included “Congress Poland” and all of Finland, so it was even larger than the borders of The Soviet Union.
I didn’t go there, but you’re right.
Hitler never dreamed that Great Britain and France would actually go to war over Poland. Tojo never dreamed that the United States would fight over Asia. Kim Il-sung never dreamed that Truman would send 300,000 troops to defend South Korea. Saddam Hussein never dreamed that Bush would oppose an invasion of Kuwait. Who knows what gamble Putin might try if he thinks the West is weak enough.
Was anyone keeping them from moving east back to the rump of their Motherland? The current Russian land claims to be suffering from a shortage of ethnic Russians. I'd think they'd be glad to have more emmigrate there. Russia already has more land than any other country. What it needs isn't more land. It needs more citizens to fulfill the potential of the land it already has.
Which is opposite to the cliam Ukraine can’t win. Just send Ukraine money, munitions and humanitarian aid and Ukraine has a good chance of beating Russia. No direct U.S. or NATO intervention needed.
I would imagine corruption is rampant in the Russian army.
East Germany was however part of The Warsaw Pact.
You ever look at the position NATO has put Russia in? America never thought the Japanese would strike pre-emtively.
Maybe it was Putin who actually put himself in that position be threatening everyone. What do you expect these countries to do but align.
Which of the states that aligned themselves within NATO after the Soviet Union fell was he threatening?
Blow that FALLOUT whistle!
What Russia needs is an economic and social system to make good use of its incredible resource base and the demonstrable talent of its people.
In terms of the Russian people, they arent just missing the ethnic Russians in the old borderlands, but those that fled in a massive brain-drain into “the West” since the fall of the Soviet Union, and ongoing. There are more ethnic Russians in just Germany and the US than in Ukraine. There are probably more Russians in just Israel than in the Baltic states. Thats almost entirely because of Russian economic failure.
For those who are talented and willing to be corrupt the Russian economy can work great. Until some one more corrupt comes along. They need the reality of good government, property rights and the rule of law to replace “might makes right” for average, want to be honest, Russians before their economy as a whole will work. The right ideals, those of our Founders, need to lead. Instead their antithesis hold them back. But the resources and individual talent is certainly there for an economic powerhouse. Or at least was there pre-brain-drain.
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