If I had to hazard a guess for the reasons for our continued misadventures in the Ukraine, I'd have to say I think they are threefold:
1) if you'll recall, we have somewhere between 11 and 30 biological warfare labs in the Ukraine that we don't want to give back to Russia.
2) we want to rape the Ukraine of her natural resources, mostly of the mineral variety.
3) While we neither need nor want the Ukraine's grain, we want to deny Russia her traditional breadbasket, which has always been the Ukraine.
But it's a fool's game to interfere in Russian internal affairs in the Ukraine. The Ukraine is, and has always been, Russian. Shit fire, the capitol, Kiev, was founded by the Kievan Rus, a Swedish viking group that the entirety of Russia takes her name from! How much more Russian can you get?
While Russia is not to be trusted in general, they aren't all bad. Recall that Putin led the charge against international banksters, which is likely the real reason he initially came under fire - the Deep State can't have an entire country bucking against it's control mechanisms. Killary Klinton led the Deep State charge against Russia, with her "Big Red Button", if you'll recall. That had Deep State fingerprints all over it.
Russia seems to have hitched her wagon to China in a time when it looked like China had [pockets deep enough to bankroll an alternate financial control mechanism of the world with her "Belts and Roads Initiative", which was really just a scheme to perform back door invasions and takeovers of land in countries not hers. Now that the financial bra straps are slipping off her shoulders, Russia is trying to figure out a way to cut the cable on the anchor that China is about to become, I think.
I personally think we ought to leave Russian internal problems like the Ukraine to the Russians, and stop meddling in them. I see no difference between what we are doing there and a hypothetical situation in which California were to secede from the US, and when the US tried to re-annex her as it did with the Confederate States, Russia and China started pouring resources into California to shore up their shaky regime and keep them separate from the US, denying America of most of her Pacific ports. Would we stand for that if it were to happen? If not, why are we doing the exact same thing to Russia?
Is Russia a danger? Of course it is. We've made ourselves an enemy of Russia when we didn't have to. That breeds even more bad blood. We have to keep an eye on all "western" borders with Russia, watching for untoward incursions... but, at the same time, we are artificially trying to slip the border to the wrong side of the Ukraine... and that ain't gonna have a good ending.
Stealing other folks' land rarely does have a good outcome.
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1) if you'll recall, we have somewhere between 11 and 30 biological warfare labs in the Ukraine that we don't want to give back to Russia.
2) we want to rape the Ukraine of her natural resources, mostly of the mineral variety.
3) While we neither need nor want the Ukraine's grain, we want to deny Russia her traditional breadbasket, which has always been the Ukraine.
But it's a fool's game to interfere in Russian internal affairs in the Ukraine. The Ukraine is, and has always been, Russian. Shit fire, the capitol, Kiev, was founded by the Kievan Rus, a Swedish viking group that the entirety of Russia takes her name from! How much more Russian can you get?
While Russia is not to be trusted in general, they aren't all bad. Recall that Putin led the charge against international banksters, which is likely the real reason he initially came under fire - the Deep State can't have an entire country bucking against it's control mechanisms. Killary Klinton led the Deep State charge against Russia, with her "Big Red Button", if you'll recall. That had Deep State fingerprints all over it.
Russia seems to have hitched her wagon to China in a time when it looked like China had [pockets deep enough to bankroll an alternate financial control mechanism of the world with her "Belts and Roads Initiative", which was really just a scheme to perform back door invasions and takeovers of land in countries not hers. Now that the financial bra straps are slipping off her shoulders, Russia is trying to figure out a way to cut the cable on the anchor that China is about to become, I think.
I personally think we ought to leave Russian internal problems like the Ukraine to the Russians, and stop meddling in them. I see no difference between what we are doing there and a hypothetical situation in which California were to secede from the US, and when the US tried to re-annex her as it did with the Confederate States, Russia and China started pouring resources into California to shore up their shaky regime and keep them separate from the US, denying America of most of her Pacific ports. Would we stand for that if it were to happen? If not, why are we doing the exact same thing to Russia?
Is Russia a danger? Of course it is. We've made ourselves an enemy of Russia when we didn't have to. That breeds even more bad blood. We have to keep an eye on all "western" borders with Russia, watching for untoward incursions... but, at the same time, we are artificially trying to slip the border to the wrong side of the Ukraine... and that ain't gonna have a good ending.
Stealing other folks' land rarely does have a good outcome.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake