Putin has not threatened China in any way. Putin has attacked America's allies Georgia and Ukraine completely unprovoked. Georgians and Ukrainians bled and died next to Americans fighting our terrorist enemies in Iraq. Russians didn't help us at all, they helped our enemies. The Russians armed our Syrian and Iranian enemies who helped insurgents kill our soldiers with roadside bombs. My rhetoric regarding Russia is not misplaced, your adoration for our Russian terrorist enemies is misplaced.
You’re really ‘something’.
Bush holds fault, but the same policy-writers are working under the Puppet. We were not winning in either war before the Puppet; the Puppet just doubled down on a bad situation...in BOTH: One with no security forces, the other with deadly ROE.
I never wrote that ‘Putin threatened China’; he’s not dumb. This is the ‘logic’ I alluded to prior: “Keep your enemies closer”.
We have been helping Russia’s enemies for decades. Tit-for-tat is a natural extension of cold war policies. Ukraine has been flirting with the west for years, much to their peril. Their involvement in Iraq was more about their own relations with Russia than being allied with the US.
I have no adoration for Russia. Your emotional hatred for Russia could be rational, but from my perspective of your demonstration here, not.