This article looks at different theories. Sadly, Putin is a dictator with nationalist fantasies trying to maintain power via a war. Author Sorn even discusses but rejects Mearsheimer’s “blame the West & U.S. ” view for NATO encroachment.
Was Putin/Russia with a greater number of nuclear ICBMs than anyone else really worried about being invaded by NATO? Apparently Gorbachev denied that the West ever promised not to expand NATO eastward. On the other hand, Russia violated many assurances of peaceful coexistence with the West, most egregiously by not recognizing or respecting Ukrainian sovereignty and borders in exchange for repatriation of the legacy Soviet nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil. I bet the Ukrainians would love a “do over” on that one.
One distinct possibility is that in the relatively near future, people with less ambitious and grandiose, but more practical and realistic interests for the good of the Russian People, and not the “empire” will say, “Enough.” Putin could retire to his favorite dacha and live an elite retirement, the Russian and Ukrainian peoples could try to get their lives back in order (minus those cruelly have no lives to get back in order.)
None of this has the faintest relationship to Putin’s fighting Globalists in the Ukraine to save the West that appears to be a great bit of propaganda embedded strategically by Putenites. My only concern is that his eventual replacement may have an even larger Russian imperial chip on his shoulder.
Hi, Sebastien
All that tells me, is that Putin is becoming unhinged — which Biden already is. It’s time to pray, get right with God and stockpile food and gas, in that order. Other things are pretty much a waste of time. There’s no way to appease crazy men.
If you read the link, you can see that Putin’s concern is not for anyone’s well-being, but with “who gets the blame.”
https://imgs.search.brave.com/n0vYj58nmue6Tisv6mkq95wv75df_1m9zeDsl1rQtww/rs:fit:536:218:1/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9hc3Bl/cmdlcmh1bWFuLmZp/bGVzLndvcmRwcmVz/cy5jb20vMjAxNS8w/Ny9mdW5ueS1waWN0/dXJlcy1vZi1iYWJp/ZXMtd2l0aC1leWVi/cm93cy5wbmc_dz01/NDYmaD0yMjI
Putin issues nuclear ultimatum.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/360166
Ask a silly question you get a silly answer.
Maybe Putin bombed and invaded Ukraine for same reason Ukraine bombed and invaded Donetsk and Luhansk. None of them are real countries.
Hypoglycemia.
Look at the graphs, and decide: Calling up 300,000 Russian reservists to throw into the Ukrainian meat grinder has instantly caused:
1. Oil and Gold (of which Putin has boquet) to surge,
2. Futures to tumble, dollars to soar, yields to drop, and euros to tumble,
— https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/putin-announces-partial-mobilization-major-ukraine-war-escalation
For someone with inside information on these coming shifts (namely, Putin and friends), this means untold wealth.
Everything about this war is so win-win for Putin, Xi, the Bidens, Cheneys and the Corporation (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, Exxon, etc.), why bother looking for a reason? The only downside is human death and misery, all across the world.
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Because he’s bad. 😀
Fashionable B.S. worth a few bucks to those who don’t want to cross the line.Cross the line into real history & anger the Vested powers behind the curtains.
The real fact is that the Russians didn’t want to end up at the Mercy of NWO bankers & Nato.
They didn’t want to end up like Yugoslavia back 22 years ago!
The bigger issue is that the Russians are destroying the evil Debt based banking system that has dominated the world financially for a number of Centuries.The System in The EU.
In London & Brussels,the UN,NATO,& the rest of the
Israel/Jew haters like George Soros in London.
Britain which politically supports & funds the Terrorists near Israel. London where Amnesty International gets funded by Soros!
Ukraine is just a sideline,forced into fighting by the British who are big at instigating conflict around the world.
Putin? Good guy or bad? who cares!!
Putin is serving Israel’s purpose by putting the screws to the British Establishment of Jew haters & that’s what counts for me!!!!!!
Trying to guess the answer is a pointless exercise. You just have to wait for the end.