Same. He's not a maniac. I'm a maniac. I have bipolar disorder. I have actual, literal, (hypo)manic episodes.
Putin doesn't have bipolar disorder, he's just a lib doing lib shit. This is the same nuclear brinksmanship we've been doing since the fifties, and it's exactly what nuclear weapons are for - Protecting your national sovereignty from foreign aggression. If Russia didn't have nukes NATO would have carpet bombed Moscow right now.
The reasonable thing to do a long time ago would have been to not provoke Russia in hopes of collapsing the state so the neoliberals could loot it's corpse. Then the reasonable thing would be to not ban Russian as literally the first act of a new Ukrainian nationalist, fascist adjacent coup government. Then the reasonable thing would be to acknowledge that Crimea is strategically vital to Russia and the RF taking defacto control of Crimea was forseeable and was, indeed, probably one of the goals of the coup operation (or Washington is just monumentally stupid). Then the reasonable thing would be to acknowledge that the Donbas has legitimate concerns that the hostile Kiev government might do little a ethnic cleansing, as a treat, and send in a joint peacekeeping force to maintain some kind of peace while Kyiv negotiates with Donbass. Then the reasonable thing would have been to not shell Donbas for years killing thousands of civilians and outfitting Nazi death squads. Then the reasonable thing would have been to support what's his ass when he tried to end the war and help him dispose of the Nazis who told him to fuck off. Then the reasonable thing would have been to tell Ukraine to stand down instead of sending their army in to Donbas to do a little sectarian violence. Then the reasonable thing would have been to negotiate some kind of peaceful settlement with Russia that would secure it's national interests without resort to open warfare. And it just goes on and on and on and on.
But Washington doesn't want to be reasonable. They want to devour the corpse of the RF for those sweet, sweet natural resources.
Same. He's not a maniac. I'm a maniac. I have bipolar disorder. I have actual, literal, (hypo)manic episodes.
Putin doesn't have bipolar disorder, he's just a lib doing lib shit. This is the same nuclear brinksmanship we've been doing since the fifties, and it's exactly what nuclear weapons are for - Protecting your national sovereignty from foreign aggression. If Russia didn't have nukes NATO would have carpet bombed Moscow right now.
The reasonable thing to do a long time ago would have been to not provoke Russia in hopes of collapsing the state so the neoliberals could loot it's corpse. Then the reasonable thing would be to not ban Russian as literally the first act of a new Ukrainian nationalist, fascist adjacent coup government. Then the reasonable thing would be to acknowledge that Crimea is strategically vital to Russia and the RF taking defacto control of Crimea was forseeable and was, indeed, probably one of the goals of the coup operation (or Washington is just monumentally stupid). Then the reasonable thing would be to acknowledge that the Donbas has legitimate concerns that the hostile Kiev government might do little a ethnic cleansing, as a treat, and send in a joint peacekeeping force to maintain some kind of peace while Kyiv negotiates with Donbass. Then the reasonable thing would have been to not shell Donbas for years killing thousands of civilians and outfitting Nazi death squads. Then the reasonable thing would have been to support what's his ass when he tried to end the war and help him dispose of the Nazis who told him to fuck off. Then the reasonable thing would have been to tell Ukraine to stand down instead of sending their army in to Donbas to do a little sectarian violence. Then the reasonable thing would have been to negotiate some kind of peaceful settlement with Russia that would secure it's national interests without resort to open warfare. And it just goes on and on and on and on.
But Washington doesn't want to be reasonable. They want to devour the corpse of the RF for those sweet, sweet natural resources.