thedukeofearl
Well-Known Member
North, your's is a typical American response. Putin is a madman dictator. Put, the west is trying to destroy his economy over the dying of oil. Putin has already laid out what he will do. How much he has the capability to do is another story. Putin in becoming maybe the richest man in the world didn't develop a balanced economy. He's already fighting the US in Ukraine. I would argue that Ukrainians over the years have been the most resilient if you look at history. Putin could care less about Israel unless he perceives them to be behind the so-called CABAL. Russia is an ally of Syria. What people don't get is that Assad was running a mostly peaceful nation but the west pipeline through Syria was going to be another way to take down Russian oil.
I'm not pro-Putin or Russia, especially while my friends are in harms way. Make no mistake, the West has drawn themselves in this.
About Reagan, it's somewhat a myth. The system was collapsing anyway. What seeded unrest was Carters grain embargo of a society that loves meat and they had to cull herds. The system was old and didn't do much for infrastructure including oil. Reagan came at the right time and the west Europeans cut credit.
Reagan did about accidentally start WW3 over KAL 007 as his administration had no understanding of Russian and Soviet society and how genuinely paranoid they really were. The Soviets really did mistake the airliner or a military craft. The US for sure knew that at the time and tried to make hay out of it. Reagan has a number of myths such as walking into the hospital by himself. Jerry Parr told me personally he was way to bad off to do that.
The invasion is terrible and completely on Putin. There are things that could have been done to alleviate this and weren't done.
American attitudes is why we have minimally 150,000 up to a million dead Iraqi's over our freedom to be safe from weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist and we knew that. Almost all wars are preventable and catastrophic.
American attitudes is why we have minimally 150,000 up to a million dead Iraqi's over our freedom to be safe from weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist and we knew that. Almost all wars are preventable and catastrophic.