Vladimir Putin: Full Text of February 21, 2022 Speech | VT Foreign Policy
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Putin calls the collapse of the USSR "The greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". It's his own narrative, and it's isn't a secret, evil plan. He's been very open about it, and about retaking the USSR's satellite nations by force, as he has been doing!
I call it an unmitigated blessing, and the end of The Evil Empire. Reconstituting it (exactly as Putin has openly declared to do) is worth fighting to prevent.
Maybe you don't remember the Cold War, but I grew up in it, and I enlisted to fight against Communists and Soviets in particular, so that is a chapter worth not revisiting even though a KGB agent is now the Tsar of Russia.
If you are going to be Pro Putin at least acknowledge what he, himself, says about this war and the USSR's slave countries instead of making up your own reasons to justify this brutal invasion.
The good news is that I believe this is the end of Putin. I don't think he ever dreamed that the Ukrainians would fight like this for every inch of dirt, and deny his troops even a moment of rest as they destroy the country and murder all civilians in their paths. I think the captured commander has it right though. Eventually the Russian troops will hate the Ukrainians and commit even more war crimes as they get decimated.
Neither country is "good" in this confict. Ukraine has been and is still (or was until 2 weeks ago) a money laundering haven. A haven for all sorts of illicit activity. However, Russia is obviously not much different. Oligarchy's exist by definition by corruption.
The interesting thing is people seem to have forgotten his four demands: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072413634/russia-nato-ukraine
He's negotiating the other former Soviet Subjugates to his demands - make NO mistake he wants the USSR back intact. There should be no denying that based on these demands. Is the Ukraine Gov't on the-up-and-up? Hell no. Does Russia want the USSR back? Absolutely. People need to think about that - Russia is willing to bring about WW3 to this end.
Effectively, it's WW3 now. It also sets up China to take Taiwan. Remember, under Klinton and Bush, the Quadrennial Defense Review willingly accepted that we can no longer fight on two fronts and it shoudn't be our doctrine (that 2 front doctrine flowed from WW2). Well, that doctrine WAS the correct doctrine should we not want WW3. Again, my opinion.
Instead of peace through strength, we've concentrated our efforts in the USA on perpetrating election fraud, massive welfare, social justice/unrest/bullshit, catering to every single person who doesn't fit the 90th percentile. (or 95th or 99th). This "wokeism" and the selling out of our manufacturing base helped set this up (and that wasn't just the marxists...those NEOCONs helped right along with them - remember what Ross Perot said!!!).