I should remind the writer that the reason why the "Russian missile crisis" in Cuba happened was not because of that nation's militaristic and aggressive global posturing, but IN RESPONSE to the US stationing its own missiles in Turkey.
Once the not brave, but simply slightly less stupid, JFK agreed with Kruschev to remove them, then the Russians reciprocated with their own armaments in Cuba.
It does nobody any good to present a disingenuous version of history, and then to claim credit for any good arising because of that gaslighting effort.
Secondly, of course, the present contretemps in Ukraine, notwithstanding the huge amount of western propaganda attempting - largely successfully - to paint this an an issue of good versus evil, is not just about "Ukraine's NATO membership", but just as much about the genocide which the Ukrainian army has visited upon its own erstwhile citizens living in the Donbass, some 14,000 of whom have been murdered by that same professional army since 2014.
This was exactly the reason why another famous invasion took place, ie that of NS Germany into Poland on 1st September 1939, which occurred as a direct result of a similar but even worse slaughter of German nationals marooned in that nation's territory; subsequent careful investigations by German police units showing that 58,000 had been brutally murdered by the Poles in the few months preceding the invasion.
For those who wish to investigate this further, "The Bromberg Massacre" is probably a good place to start.
Finally, the question of Ukraine's entry into NATO or not is really the least of the problems facing Putin, as even if Ukraine is declared neutral territory, Russia is still being gradually surrounded on all sides by NATO lapdogs, and missiles today have very little regard for cordons sanitaires of a few hundreds of miles restricting their access to Russia's cities.
Even if Ukraine were neutral, the border zone between it and the west would still exist, and would still be festooned with US military hardware.
Putin's move should not have been military, but rather, declarative; he should have stated that if NATO wishes to deploy missiles at Russia's border, then Russia will deploy its missiles at Europe's borders.
He could have stated that any western missile launch within 200 km of the border would be assumed hostile, and a decision would immediately be taken on whether to launch Russian hardware targeting the launch sites in response, and if there was no hostile western intent, and so Russia had made an error in launching, then the responsibility for this would rest entirely on the broad and competent shoulders of such great statesmen and women as the west possesses, namely Biden and Harris.
So although Putin clearly has the moral high ground over this issue, he has allowed himself to be stripped of this by his foolish decision to launch a broad and somewhat disorganized assault against an entire nation, and this can only end very messily.
One can only realistically assume, then, that Putin's half-assed "strategy" in Ukraine is not to "denazify and demilitarize" it, but to so incompetently handle the issue that his government falls and is replaced by one which will start to do deals with western multinationals to exploit and pillage Russia's vast mineral reserves.
As an avowed member of the WEF club, along with all the other puppets we see worldwide, and surrounded as he is constantly by members of the sanhedrin and those associated with them, this surely is the only conclusion which such notables from the past as Sherlock Holmes would have drawn.
Russians, and indeed all the rest of us too, are being led inexorably towards a bright future in which we will own nothing, and be happy.
There are two hurdles for the Globalists WEF activities initiating One World Government without Countries having individual sovereignty…
America and Her Constitution and Bill of INDIVIDUAL Human rights and totalitarian states that will refuse to give up sovereignty…
This is an attempt to show Russia the same tools used by Trudeau in Canada…not allowing lives to exist…cut off access to banking, food and shelter…imagine treating Russian Oligarchs the same as the woman who donated $50 to truckers…
I believe the mechanisms and actions of those attacking America’s sovereignty from within using WEF methods are TRAITORS…
Half of sitting Congress has betray America and Her citizens while enriching themselves off of the ENEMIES of Freedom and the United States Constitution…
…fancy words and narratives can not change the fact the America’s “Representatives” have not risked their Lives and Liberty, rather they have opted for payoffs and prestige
I wonder about the coincidence that Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Obama all recently are buying homes in HI. I wonder who else has in the Elite group are finding a place to escape. Are they distancing themselves from Armageddon? They are trying really hard to reduce the population as quickly as possible (COVID and vaccines), and what is next, anthrax outbreak, WWIII....
If the west had stopped stepping on Putin's toes, then this wouldn't have happened. The west is responsible for the plight of the Ukrainian people, Russia is only pursuing the only option left open to it.
How long are gullible, easily-manipulated people going to keep repeating Putin's "Blame NATO" propaganda distraction? NATO countries already border Russia, and NATO has never attacked Russia.
NATO is not a threat to Russia. Putin knows that. He doesn't care about NATO reaching his borders, he's angry that democracy has reached Russia's borders and scared that democracy may spillover into Russia. He's mad that his failed leadership causes half of Russian youth to despise him and prefer democratic, Western cultures. And he's an aging megalomaniac who thinks Ukraine has no right to exist. Those are the real reasons for Putin's invasion, not NATO.
That Putin keeps attacking his non-NATO neighbors is all the proof needed to justify Russia's neighbors wanting to join NATO. But "Blame NATO" crowd -- including Putin -- keeps forgetting to care about what Ukranians want. Non-Ukranians have no right to make guarantees on Ukraine's behalf.
Thanks to the shameful debacles in Iraq and Aghanistan, it's now NATO policy that the days of Cold War imperialistic warmongering and bullying are over: Ukraine gets to decide Ukraine's foreign policy. Putin's delusions of imperial grandeur are destroying not just Ukraine, but Russia. This is not NATO's war, this is Putin's war. The Russian people must end it.
What's farcical are the attempts by Putin apologists to blame everyone but Putin for Putin's horrid actions. The West did learn from Iraq that the days of Cold War imperialist warmongering and bullying are over. It's Putin who can't let go of that failed paradigm. The West isn't the one attacking Ukraine, Putin is. Nice try.
Putin has been killing Russians who speak out for democracy since 1999 and Putin's Nazi's are killing Ukrainian children now, have been killing Ukranians since 2014, killing Georgians since 2008, and waging genocide on Chechnyan gays since 2008.
I feel sorry for you who are so soulless, evil, and amoral you are cheering for Putin, a Nazi dictator who murders, poisons, and jails political opponents, sent innocent Russian teenagers to be cannon fodder, and who is bombing Ukranian children to death.
I should remind the writer that the reason why the "Russian missile crisis" in Cuba happened was not because of that nation's militaristic and aggressive global posturing, but IN RESPONSE to the US stationing its own missiles in Turkey.
Once the not brave, but simply slightly less stupid, JFK agreed with Kruschev to remove them, then the Russians reciprocated with their own armaments in Cuba.
It does nobody any good to present a disingenuous version of history, and then to claim credit for any good arising because of that gaslighting effort.
Secondly, of course, the present contretemps in Ukraine, notwithstanding the huge amount of western propaganda attempting - largely successfully - to paint this an an issue of good versus evil, is not just about "Ukraine's NATO membership", but just as much about the genocide which the Ukrainian army has visited upon its own erstwhile citizens living in the Donbass, some 14,000 of whom have been murdered by that same professional army since 2014.
This was exactly the reason why another famous invasion took place, ie that of NS Germany into Poland on 1st September 1939, which occurred as a direct result of a similar but even worse slaughter of German nationals marooned in that nation's territory; subsequent careful investigations by German police units showing that 58,000 had been brutally murdered by the Poles in the few months preceding the invasion.
For those who wish to investigate this further, "The Bromberg Massacre" is probably a good place to start.
Finally, the question of Ukraine's entry into NATO or not is really the least of the problems facing Putin, as even if Ukraine is declared neutral territory, Russia is still being gradually surrounded on all sides by NATO lapdogs, and missiles today have very little regard for cordons sanitaires of a few hundreds of miles restricting their access to Russia's cities.
Even if Ukraine were neutral, the border zone between it and the west would still exist, and would still be festooned with US military hardware.
Putin's move should not have been military, but rather, declarative; he should have stated that if NATO wishes to deploy missiles at Russia's border, then Russia will deploy its missiles at Europe's borders.
He could have stated that any western missile launch within 200 km of the border would be assumed hostile, and a decision would immediately be taken on whether to launch Russian hardware targeting the launch sites in response, and if there was no hostile western intent, and so Russia had made an error in launching, then the responsibility for this would rest entirely on the broad and competent shoulders of such great statesmen and women as the west possesses, namely Biden and Harris.
So although Putin clearly has the moral high ground over this issue, he has allowed himself to be stripped of this by his foolish decision to launch a broad and somewhat disorganized assault against an entire nation, and this can only end very messily.
One can only realistically assume, then, that Putin's half-assed "strategy" in Ukraine is not to "denazify and demilitarize" it, but to so incompetently handle the issue that his government falls and is replaced by one which will start to do deals with western multinationals to exploit and pillage Russia's vast mineral reserves.
As an avowed member of the WEF club, along with all the other puppets we see worldwide, and surrounded as he is constantly by members of the sanhedrin and those associated with them, this surely is the only conclusion which such notables from the past as Sherlock Holmes would have drawn.
Russians, and indeed all the rest of us too, are being led inexorably towards a bright future in which we will own nothing, and be happy.
Allow me to make a suggestion.
In order to partially placate the hordes of Russian "Stop The War" apparatchiks, somebody is going to be released from prison.
Perhaps those of you with more than usually acute senses might be able to make a guess as to who that might be.
And further, what he might then do.
There are two hurdles for the Globalists WEF activities initiating One World Government without Countries having individual sovereignty…
America and Her Constitution and Bill of INDIVIDUAL Human rights and totalitarian states that will refuse to give up sovereignty…
This is an attempt to show Russia the same tools used by Trudeau in Canada…not allowing lives to exist…cut off access to banking, food and shelter…imagine treating Russian Oligarchs the same as the woman who donated $50 to truckers…
I believe the mechanisms and actions of those attacking America’s sovereignty from within using WEF methods are TRAITORS…
Half of sitting Congress has betray America and Her citizens while enriching themselves off of the ENEMIES of Freedom and the United States Constitution…
…fancy words and narratives can not change the fact the America’s “Representatives” have not risked their Lives and Liberty, rather they have opted for payoffs and prestige
This is an excellent point and well put.
Justifying Treason with “narratives” is still Treason…
If California Texas or new York states decided they didn't want to be part of the United hate states of hamerica
We'd see a similar response from our own government as Russia is giving Ukraine
I wonder about the coincidence that Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Obama all recently are buying homes in HI. I wonder who else has in the Elite group are finding a place to escape. Are they distancing themselves from Armageddon? They are trying really hard to reduce the population as quickly as possible (COVID and vaccines), and what is next, anthrax outbreak, WWIII....
No way Zelensky’s puppet masters will agree to this. They need the war.
If the west had stopped stepping on Putin's toes, then this wouldn't have happened. The west is responsible for the plight of the Ukrainian people, Russia is only pursuing the only option left open to it.
How long are gullible, easily-manipulated people going to keep repeating Putin's "Blame NATO" propaganda distraction? NATO countries already border Russia, and NATO has never attacked Russia.
NATO is not a threat to Russia. Putin knows that. He doesn't care about NATO reaching his borders, he's angry that democracy has reached Russia's borders and scared that democracy may spillover into Russia. He's mad that his failed leadership causes half of Russian youth to despise him and prefer democratic, Western cultures. And he's an aging megalomaniac who thinks Ukraine has no right to exist. Those are the real reasons for Putin's invasion, not NATO.
That Putin keeps attacking his non-NATO neighbors is all the proof needed to justify Russia's neighbors wanting to join NATO. But "Blame NATO" crowd -- including Putin -- keeps forgetting to care about what Ukranians want. Non-Ukranians have no right to make guarantees on Ukraine's behalf.
Thanks to the shameful debacles in Iraq and Aghanistan, it's now NATO policy that the days of Cold War imperialistic warmongering and bullying are over: Ukraine gets to decide Ukraine's foreign policy. Putin's delusions of imperial grandeur are destroying not just Ukraine, but Russia. This is not NATO's war, this is Putin's war. The Russian people must end it.
No, Putin would not back up now. It is too late. He went too far, and he will go to the end (of him).
Very good, Vasko. Thanks, Tim
What's farcical are the attempts by Putin apologists to blame everyone but Putin for Putin's horrid actions. The West did learn from Iraq that the days of Cold War imperialist warmongering and bullying are over. It's Putin who can't let go of that failed paradigm. The West isn't the one attacking Ukraine, Putin is. Nice try.
Ukrainian NAZIs have been killing ethnic-Russian Ukrainians since 2014. Putin didn't start this war. He's ending it.
Weep for the NAZIs.
Putin has been killing Russians who speak out for democracy since 1999 and Putin's Nazi's are killing Ukrainian children now, have been killing Ukranians since 2014, killing Georgians since 2008, and waging genocide on Chechnyan gays since 2008.
I feel sorry for you who are so soulless, evil, and amoral you are cheering for Putin, a Nazi dictator who murders, poisons, and jails political opponents, sent innocent Russian teenagers to be cannon fodder, and who is bombing Ukranian children to death.