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The globalists and neocons did EVERYTHING it could to make and enemy of Russia and the author explains why. We've unnecessarily made an enemy of Russia and pushed into an alliance with China. It's sickening.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/the_ukraine_crisis_may_be_more_of_a_boon_to_the_globalists_and_western_lefts_agenda_than_is_apparent_at_first_glance.html

March 15, 2022

The Ukraine crisis may be more of a boon to the globalists and Western left’s agenda than is apparent at first glance. By Jared Peterson

First, the obvious:

We -- the US -- bear much of the responsibility for creating the poisoned atmosphere that inclined Putin to attack Ukraine. Thirty years of spurning Russia’s openly expressed desire after the Soviet collapse for peace and normalcy between itself and Western Europe, including twenty years of gratuitous, deliberately threatening behavior by the West -- in 1999 and 2004, actual NATO expansions, in 2008, a promised further expansion, and in 2014, overt anti-Russian meddling in Ukrainian politics -- all culminated in Putin’s desperate and dangerous act.

In 1991, when the Soviets’ external and internal empire dissolved, newly emerged and shrunken Russia’s proffer of peaceful relations was real, the first actual chance for cooperative relations between Russia and the West since Tsar Alexander I helped to defeat the marble-tombed war-maker, Napoleon. That early 1990’s Russian offer was successfully resisted through the Iago-like whisperings of America’s military/industrial complex, fearful of losing the militarily powerful enemy that was key to its budgets, weapons systems, jobs, and profits.

But in today’s world, another motive for the West’s stubbornly antagonistic stance toward Russia has entered the picture: without regard to the Ukraine war, Russia of late was as much the object of the Western left’s loathing because of its return after the Cold War to nationalism and cultural conservatism, as it was the object of the left’s admiration previously because of its embrace of Communism. The resurgent Western left, now allied with the globalists, for years has despised Russia for its return to tradition, just as they despise Poland and Hungary for the same reason. Now, in the case of Russia, they can mask their cultural loathing in the more respectable garb of opposition to war.

So, through the war we provoked, America’s military industrialists have secured for at least a generation Russia’s status as an enemy; and America’s left (and globalists) have isolated, weakened, and now hope to destroy, a powerful opponent of their various insanities and plan to impose them on the entire planet through unopposed, Western-sponsored globalism. Thus, the Ukraine war, brought to the world by 30 years of spurning peace and 20 years of deliberate provocation, all urged on America’s political elites and by its military industrialists, serves the interests of both our militarists and left globalists.

Well, at least you cited Jared Peterson, who is somewhat more credible than your other “sources.” Except for this: “Thirty years of spurning Russia’s openly expressed desire after the Soviet collapse for peace and normalcy between itself and Western Europe, including twenty years of gratuitous, deliberately threatening behavior by the West...”

Russia didn’t express such a desire; indeed, it stood in opposition to much of what the US and the West did in the years after the 1991 collapse of the USSR (Note: I actually agreed with Russia re: the actions of NATO in the Balkans under Clinton; we had no business getting involved in that). Russia didn’t so much as want rapprochement with the West than it was scared sh!tless of its vulnerability after 1991. It, understandably, wanted to stall for time until it could build up and lose its perceived vulnerability.

As for former Soviet satellite states wanting to join NATO, it was because they had suffered terribly under Russian dominance, and did not at all trust Russia. If they had nothing to fear from a “new” Russia, why did they want to be protected FROM Russia?

Does the US share some responsibility for meddling in Ukrainian internal affairs? Yup, it does. And that responsibility falls on the shoulders of Obama and Biden, arguably the most feckless administration in American history (and I see Biden/Harris as nothing more than the third term of Obama/Biden).

But, the simple fact is, that Putin invaded a sovereign nation that posed no real threat to Russia. And he’d been planning it for a LONG time. And, what smokescreens (that no one believed): Exercises; Peacekeeping force; assistance to ethnic Russians in Donbas.