Russia needs the Ukraine to feed its people during the coming mini ice age.
Putin does what it takes to protect his people and our dufus POTUS does everything in his power to weaken and threaten his.
I would take Putin over this current Jack-Lilly any day.
“Russia needs the Ukraine to feed its people during the coming mini ice age.”
That was 20 years ago.
Now Russia is now a net EXPORTER of wheat.
Russia Wheat Export Price Falls for 1st Time Since July on Glut
http://www.agweb.com/article/russia-wheat-export-price-falls-for-1st-time-since-july-on-glut/
In the last 15 years, they have opened up huge tracts of land for agriculture.
If the Current Occupant could somehow be dismissed from his job, it would be almost welcome for Vladimir Putin to send a viceroy to govern that territory once known as “the United States of America”. Putin could then call upon the resources of this territory to defeat his REAL opposition, the Muslim extremists both within the Russian Federation, and in the surrounding provinces, all with a ruthlessness the Current Occupant will not display toward Islam.
Russian is unlikely to backslide into the kind of Communism practiced under Stalin and his successors, but they have a well-developed sense of governing through a high and powerful oligarchy, still a largely centralized government that farms its operations out to favored “crony capitalists”, but without the ideological twist that is expressed in the territory once known as “the United States of America”.
That global warming really sucks, causing these ice ages.
I’d be more worried about ISIS or some other little player setting off a nuke. Ever hear of mutually assured destruction (MAD)?
Yes. Instead of maintenance and upkeep of our strategic forces, we've squandered untold riches on Iraq, who should've been paying us war reparations, not to mention the money spent on illegal immigrants and my favorite - muzzie outreach.