People get caught up in the prison of ideological perspectives. Human motivations are not caged by ideology and remain the same as they’ve always been. Once the basic needs are met, what humans crave above all is personal prestige. And the one surefire way of gaining long-lasting fame is the classic land grab.
Ideology - whether a claimed fear of the West or neo-Bolshevism on Putin’s part - is not why Putin invaded Ukraine. He did it to put himself on a bigger pedestal.
The role of ideology is to serve as motivation for the lower ranks, who have to risk their lives on the battlefield. Putin can hardly say that he’s doing this to make himself BMOC among the pantheon of Russian leaders. He’d be strung up before the day was done. So the invasion of Ukraine became an effort to offset the looming threat of NATO conquest, to turn back the inexorable advance of Satanism and globohomo. A simple message for a people steeped in imperial propaganda in an empire that, after all, is the territorial successor to the old Mongol Empire, on whose soil 90% of Russia exists, today.
Now that is propaganda.
Meanwhile, while as a strategy of the US to weaken Russia in order to focus on China might be speculated, yet the massive aid to Ukraine has greatly depleted US stocks, and exposed its production deficiency.
Meanwhile, although this has manifested Russia to be less a threat than was imagined, yet now she can rebuild its military to eventually be more advanced than before.
Now if Russia gave up on Putin and Ukraine but entered into mutually beneficial trade with it, and made China its enemy, then it could apply for Western aid until it decides once again to try to regain its Soviet vain glory, and invade Israel.
Yet the West is committing suicide, not simply financially, but by making God its enemy, a war which cannot be won by any adversary.
The below applies:
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. (Hosea 8:3-4,14)
It’s a NATO proxy war and the Ukrainian people are pawns. The goal is to ruin Russia no matter the suffering of the Ukrainian people.
A guy at work was from Bosnia. He said major powers just push the little countries around. It could be the Brits, Italians, Turks, French, Germans, etc. You are seeing his assertion in real time.
When this proxy war concludes, Ukrainians will become excruciatingly aware of the truth:....that they’ve sacrificed a generation of men and women in their prime....
“We’re in a hot war with Russia. It’s a proxy war and NATO is fighting it through Ukraine,”...... says American political scientist Ian Bremmer.
Interesting news if true.....Zelensky Top aide ‘Aleksey Arestovich’ has offered to resign after saying Ukraine had intercepted a Russian missile that caused he deadly explosion in Dnepr.