RE: Is Donald Trump a traitor?!
July 19, 2018 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2018 at 5:55 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Putin views himself primarily as a restorer of Russian security and dominant position within the “near abroad”, which is the traditional Russian sphere of influence and considered to be essential buffers to safeguard russia’s Physical security.
Putin views America and NATO as being out to destroy Russia, not necessarily by beating Russia proper down today, but by depriving Russia of her security buffer such that her long term prospect for sustained security or even survival is fatally undermined.
What Putin is doing is both reaction to and retaliation against what the Clinton and bush administrations, and to a lesser degree Obama’s administration did to Russia through expansion of NATO into former Soviet sphere of influence and election meddling to deprive Russia and Russian speaking population influences in former Soviet republic.
However, the notion that just because we did it to Russia first, did it more often and for much longer, and arguably did it in ways the profoundly harmed russia’s existential security interests (putin’s Installation of trump hasn’t begun harm america’s Existential security interest, only discretionary global influence interests) we ought not to be alarmed is absurd.
Countries don’t survive by giving others blank checks to harm itself in ways it has harmed others.
Putin views America and NATO as being out to destroy Russia, not necessarily by beating Russia proper down today, but by depriving Russia of her security buffer such that her long term prospect for sustained security or even survival is fatally undermined.
What Putin is doing is both reaction to and retaliation against what the Clinton and bush administrations, and to a lesser degree Obama’s administration did to Russia through expansion of NATO into former Soviet sphere of influence and election meddling to deprive Russia and Russian speaking population influences in former Soviet republic.
However, the notion that just because we did it to Russia first, did it more often and for much longer, and arguably did it in ways the profoundly harmed russia’s existential security interests (putin’s Installation of trump hasn’t begun harm america’s Existential security interest, only discretionary global influence interests) we ought not to be alarmed is absurd.
Countries don’t survive by giving others blank checks to harm itself in ways it has harmed others.
