Levin is still out there Ranting for Ratings like the lunatic anti-Trumper that he is.
Putin published six key demands. Levin ignores them so he can rant.
Putin’s six key demands:
1. No NATO membership and a neutral position.
2. Russian should be the second official language of 3. Ukraine, with laws prohibiting it abolished.
3. Recognise Crimea as Russian territory.
4. Recognise the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk.
5. Demilitarisation of Ukraine and abandonment of weapons that could be a threat to the Kremlin.
6. Banning of ultra-nationalist parties and organisations in Ukraine.
Which would result in Ukraine becoming a vassal state under Putin.
There are aging but still influential Republicans who see Putin as a closet communist whose goal is to re-establish the old USSR. If he is not, we have no reason to get involved in the Ukraine. In addition to delving into evidence that bears on this, these Republicans should simply put this question to him and see how he responds.
Maybe Levin ignored what Putin published for you because he believes Putin was lying thru his teeth. Which seems likely to me since you list his public propaganda points meant for the press.
Putin also said that he had no intention of invading even as he was amassing troops.
Why should we listen to those 6 demands when he told us clearly both in the paper Levin is referring to and again in a speech shortly after the invasion began that he intends to make Ukraine and other countries part of Russia.
Those demands are a pretext to justify the war, nothing more. Demilitarization??? Trust us, we won’t invade!!! Oh and no alliances that could help you defend yourself if we do invade?? And give up your claim to the land we’ve already taken from you plus the rest of the land in those regions that we haven’t yet taken from you??
So, does rational thought and historical prophecy make “the Great One” a raving lunatic?
I still remember Levin kissing Bill Barr’s fat ass like he was interviewing Moses.