Russia - Ukraine

Many years ago, I learned to recognize when I am being conned -- especially when story does not make sense or is illogical.

I am wanted to believe one guy wears the “white” hat and the other has the “black” hat.” This Russia-Ukraine is a classic. The whole thing does not make sense.

The guys with the “white” hats want me to believe the other guy has to be obviously insane. That is the only explanation for something so bizarre and absurd. The “white hats” don’t want me to make sense about the weirdness. Something doesn’t seem right.To make me not want to put my brain in order, they obfuscate with overwhelm amounts of propaganda.

When I read this YouTube video (Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer), I heard an apparent answer of what was happening in March 2022. It was almost letter by letter what I was being heard. Nothing was ambiguous. Nothing was illogical. It was an explanation “after the fact” for today’s actions for Putin, as if Mearsheimer wrote it yesterday. 

The problem was -- this lecture was in 2015 and not in 2022.

I thought of the Monroe Doctrine and how America was ready to risk nuclear war in Cuba. Unquestionably, Ukraine is an identical situation.

I suspect Putin thought he only had to threat like Kennedy did with Khrushchev. He guessed wrong. He had to follow through.

He thought the Russian military could make this quick job. Again, he guessed wrong.

He thought NATO was a paper tiger. He appears to be wrong.

The American administrations want us to believe the Russian people will rise up against Putin. Just squeeze the populace. They are wrong. Millions of people have a history of suffering and dying. Americans are clueless about that life.

In 2015, Putin told the world and Russian people what he would do. He is doing it “letter by letter” AND he has the Russian people overwhelming behind him. 

Don’t believe the contrary BS from the “white hats.”

The “white hats” (and China) are gleeful. They are destroying the Russian military and its country at Ukraine’s expense. The only question is how long will this farce continue.

I remember when Russia was in its ten year Afghanistan war. It destroyed Russian economy. Surely, America would not be that stupid. Surely, they remember the geniuses in the idiotic domino strategy in Vietnam. Fortunately, we had available trillions of dollars to throw away. Just borrow the treasury of our generations.

Russia does not have generations. It is literally dying now. Ukraine is their last hurrah. They are totally done, except for a few thousand nuclear weapons

Everyone can continue to swallow the “white hat” propaganda. Anybody remember their story of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction? I think they tried that one to the world once before.

However, John McCain’s statement is prophetic. Ukraine for Russia and Putin is strategic. They are literally against the wall (or border). It is just a small pawn for America.

Everyone can guess who has the most to lose. What is Putin’s Doctrine? What’s the final game?