Last weekend, the big news should have been the Durham Clinton Campaign indictment drop. Instead, it was War with Russia™. We even had a start date. Wednesday (ish), or something. Well, it has been Wednesday all day (it’s almost over ‘over there’) so, wassup?
Well, like iceless ice caps and rising seas, any day now is what they mean—that constant state of pressure and fear. The moral equivalent of war but this time, it’s actual war. Putin has piled his weapons and soldiers along the border, rattled sabers, and unlike his illegal land grab in Crimea – a peaceful annexation – ongoing hostilities appear ready to evolve into a full-scale hot-war.
Putin is pining to return Ukraine to puppet rule (his puppet), but the people still seem keen on not having that. He (Putin) wants to secure his eastern front, and he needs Ukraine for that and has told NATO hands-off.
NATO, a useless alliance now that Biden is running the A, has been considering Ukraine’s application to join for more than a decade applying in 2008. In 2010 Putin puppet Viktor Yanukovych took over but ran away in 2014 after a popular revolution replaced him. In a show of appreciation, Putin’s Russia seized Crimea. A critical strategic port snatched from a sovereign neighbor, and Barry Obama didn’t as much as blink.
Not in any meaningful way. Once for no twice for yes.
But by 2019 Ukraine had enshrined the idea of joining the EU and NATO into its constitution and Putin has been making statements of his own ever since.
Don’t let Ukraine join.
To reinforce this demand, he’s moved his Risk pieces toward the Ukraine border, which he can do as fast and as often as he likes, but the point is pointed. Rockets, artillery, tanks, and lots of troops. And why not, Joe Biden is president. The genius of the Afghan withdrawal – Putin has nothing to lose.
Well, that’s not entirely true.
Joe is a fu**ing fruit-loop.
Biden’s got it bad over on this side of the Atlantic and could use a serious excuse for all the crap into which he’s stuck Uncle Sam’s boot, and war is a nice distraction.
Not for real. Joe has probably back-channeled Putin and asked him for a favor. Can you take care of all that stuff they got on Hunter and me if you happen to invade? Kickbacks, make-work bribe jobs, money laundering. We can play at the war thing a bit. Then you can have the country if you clean that up for me.
I could see it. I can also see Putin agreeing and then using everything Ukraine has to hold over dopey Joe’s head. Just like China.
Not this Wednesday, perhaps, but some future hump day to be determined.
