As usual, the right wing may be way off the mark in their world affairs assessments.
Didn't Putin wreck his own Olympic games and investments thereof with a badly-timed series of assaults on the personal liberties of peaceful Russian citizens who were deemed "gay"?
Didn't he have his bare breasted horse-riding hips handed to him on a platter when the Ukraine
deposed his hand-picked leader and sent him packing?
Isn't Putin reacting?
I don't blame him exactly. NATO would have been wiser to find a more diplomatic way to
entice Ukraine into the EU, with Russian blessings if possible.
But I'm no expert either, of course. I have read enough to know former USSR countries, territories,
and satellites were thought of by the Kremlin, as integral to each others' well-being, and to Moscow's stability.
Ukraine, for instance, has food. Crimea has an open sea port, passably unfrozen all year long, and
Russia has plenty of oil.
Putin could have been more proactive about preserving the unity in the Ukraine before the east and
west headed toward climax.
How is it so admirable to aggress after a crisis is underway? Prevention is leadership.
Why are we praising Putin for insisting al Asad remain as head of Syria?
He did that so to keep the U.S. Congress from voting in a war. I don't think he had a worry there
anyway. I guess he was just taking the path of least destruction. Tough guy.
I know he says he is a religious man. I'm sorry I don't believe a bit of it. He was KGB.
He is still, deep down, in his politically furtive imaginings, Kremlin loyal.
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