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Alex you're losing it. Putin, though, is quite sharp. Seriously. You are regurgitating CIA propaganda that is broadcast on CNN.

This is simple. The US weaponized right wing Ukrainians and put them in charge of Ukraine. They've been killing Russians (the separatists) on Russia's border for 8 years and they've been screwing with Russia more and more. Zelensky was a nut and he started to even talk about building nuke weapons but the Neo-Nazis and right wing extremists in that gov, in the military and the command of the military are far worse.

Russia eliminated America's weapon that was on her border. Putin will be viewed as a hero and his popularity will increase. It has already.

Putin and Russian leadership have spoken about a necessity to decouple from "the west" for some time and a need to turn to the east. They've spoken about steps they've taken to do so. The sanctions might hurt but the Russians believed (i think correctly) that those were coming no matter what they did. Its been painfully obvious that the dems are obsessed with destroying Russia and Europe is a bunch of russophobic, US controlled lemmings. I wouldn't be surprised if the greater economic pain and regime changes that happen are in the EU. Russia has prepared for 20 years.

The military campaign is well orchestrated and rather effective (don't believe the US news). They'll put in a puppet regime, get rid of the Nazis, balkanize the place and leave, though they'll likely keep a small force of peacekeepers there.

I recommend reading or at least reading about Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard" as it seems to be the blueprint for US foreign policy towards Russia and Central Asia.

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Russia has the ability to wipe German industry off the grid by shutting off the gas. By acting like poodles for the empire, the entire EU has nobody to blame but themselves. Despite being vilified by the Western world, Putin does NOT want to rebuild the Soviet Union, he simply wants reasonable security guarantees for the Country. He was backed into a corner with no room left to negotiate with the US and Ukraine & has fully committed. The military operation will stop once Ukraine is de-nazified and demilitarized. Hopefully, there are still reasonable diplomats left in the world that can bring about a solution to prevent more bloodshed and strife before it gets to the point where we all become vaporized. I'm sorry, this is another colossal failure of US foreign policy. I wish the US would start building up its OWN crumbling bridges, rather than blowing up others.

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