The concept of in some fashion erasing Russia has a great deal of merit, but mostly for reasons ABSOLUTELY not revealed — namely, their oil will run out last. They will have oil for tractors and food transport and they will decide where it goes.
I do not think American neocon thinking has figured this out. They are wrapped up in Russia hatred for only the reason that Russia refused to acquiesce to Libya regime change, abstaining from that vote, and then after that resolution to protect civilians was corrupted into Let’s Kill Khadaffi, Russia said no more. We will oppose every single regime change UN proposal of the US.
Oil is the real reason to oppose Russia. This other bullshit is just American exceptionalism delusion. Even if they understood the horrible error they are making in creating an enemy of where oil will be controlled, they probably could not admit it.
Imagine:
We must break up Russia because we must have control of their oil and gas.
That probably won’t play well in Peoria, nor in the UN General Assembly.
And so we are faced with delusion for national policy, instead of truth.
Gas is No. 1
Great Post!
Yeah that's it. Not Russia's invasion of Georgia and annexation of 20% of its territory, not Putin's later attack and annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the the subsequent start of a separatist war in Ukraine, its not the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Ukraine's territory. Its "Russia hatred" because of Libya. Okay
“Oil is the real reason to oppose Russia.”
Good write-up, but it’s not quite the reason to oppose Russia, it’s the reason that THEY, the Neocons, oppose Russia.
What they fear, more than anything, is a world where the Western countries are stuck heading into Third World status due to their energy (and now also beef) insanity, while Russia leads the rest of the world to prosperity, by supplying them with cheap, reliable, and plentiful oil, gas, coal, and other resources.
And, to the Neocons running our government, preventing the above is worth World War 3, if it comes to that, at least based on their behavior so far.