Soros and the leftist globalists are heavily involved in Ukraine. Why are they so invested there and what are they trying to do?
VDH ping
The Leftist globalists are involved heavily in Moscow too. What about Obama’s promise of “greater flexibility” to Russia? What about Hillary’s uranium deal for Russia? What about Russia’s history of subversion for all Western countries?
Yes they are, but they have nothing to do with Ukrainian sovereignty or Russia’s need to expand out to Katherine the Great’s borders.
Every conflict has profiteers.
Hanson has been wrong on this from the beginning. He totally discounts NATO’s aggressive expansion among Russia’s most virulent enemies. Hanson has no problem with this expansion to within 300 miles of Moscow. Hanson seems to have missed NATO’s proclaimed goal of regime change. He totally discounts assurances made by DC and Brussels that this would never happen. Shocking to me that VDH would so misread this. Putin is not leading a revanchist Soviet Union. That seems to be how Hanson saw this starting.
To understand Russia’s position , it is necessary to review the reassurances then US secretary of state James A. Baker made to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting on February 9, 1990. In a discussion on the status of a reunited Germany, the two men agreed that NATO would not extend past the territory of East Germany, a promise repeated by NATO’s secretary general in a speech on May 17 that same year in Brussels.
Russia and the West finally struck an agreement in September that would allow NATO to station its troops beyond the Iron Curtain. However, the deal only concerned a reunified Germany, with further eastward expansion being inconceivable at the time.
They are heavily invested in Putin, too.