(February 24, 2022 at 8:58 am)CarveTheFive Wrote: Nothing to add except damn this is really sad. I was hoping this wasn’t going to go down.
Putin can suck my asshole.
well, from 2000-2005, Putin did his best to try to accommodate Russia as it existed then with NATO and the US. he went out of his way to let the US have access to russian airbases and former soviet airbases under russian influence to help support the US war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He offered to join NATO as well if Ukraine is admitted to NATO. that offer was dismissed. However the color revolution in Ukraine on 2005 made it clear the US wanted to endlessly weaken russia, not to accommodate Russia as it then existed and incorporate that Russia into the US led world order.
So all this bloviating about he being a mad men who wants to reconstitute the USSR is just embarrassing. The fact is Russia was pushed too far and was backed into a corner in a larger strategic sense.
