I’m not a Putinista, but I by no means take the western narrative of Ukraine at face value.
The bottom line is, Obama and the EU appears to have set this in motion more than Russia, which seemed happy with the status quo a few months back. Either Obama and the EU did it through gross incompetence (not impossible), or it was for some strategic reason. If it was strategy, you have to ask, was that strategy designed to serve the cause of freedom, honor, or even our national interests? Or is it more likely the strategy was designed to serve leftism and/or some banking/elite’s grand plan to enrich themselves and control something they wanted?
It’s not like this whole thing has a freedom/honor/goodness-obsessed ideologue like Reagan involved on one side, where sides are clear. Sure Putin is a shark, but so are the leftist/globalist/EU types on the other side.
Now, I’m not so sure Obama isn’t using his sanctions to try to get Putin to do something to our economy in return, to trip the collapse Obama has set up these last six years, so when the collapse/correction comes, he can say it was Putin who did it and not him.
I just don’t get why people even care enough to take sides. Unless FR loves Obama and the EU globalists now, you have two sides that Conservative Americans don’t support or trust in this. They are waging a proxy war which, if ignited fully, threatens to have Conservative US soldiers waging a full on war against another superpower, under the inept leadership of Obama and his group of idiot misfits, who might even hand command of our troops to the local EU leftists under the auspices of the UN, all of whom I trust even less.
I have a feeling Obama would love nothing more than to send all Conservatives over to die overseas, to cut our numbers back here at home. Even better, it distracts from what a massive incompetent he has been here for six years now, just as we are poised to sweep the midterms and maybe tar liberalism with the brush of total incompetence among our population. All as Americans are getting pissed enough to show up with guns when the fedgov moves it’s army to attack a simple cattle rancher, and we are buying guns in record numbers, and the global political scene is seeing a rise of nationalistic conservatism that terrifies the leftists all over.
The whole thing seems awful convenient for the leftists worldwide, just as their grips on power are slipping due to the resource contraction. I don’t want Putin running the world, and the US, but take a look at our POTUS before telling me we need to support our own government’s desire to get us mired in that mess.
Why would the US and the EU do this? To prevent Russia from gaining too much strength in the Middle East. Most countries can only handle one crisis like this at a time.