It is easy to predict what the Russian president will do in any given situation. Biden is making it easier for Putin to act with aggression.
By For all his caginess, dissimulation, and opportunism, Vladimir Putin is more or less predictable. Putin’s aims? The Russian president’s
two-decade dilemma has been how to reclaim the prestige and power of
the former Soviet Union—but with only 75 percent of his country’s former
territory and 140 million fewer people. When does he strike? First, Putin moves on neighboring
former Soviet republics when the world price of oil is high, and his
coffers are full. So he went into Georgia in 2008 and into Eastern
Ukraine and Crimea in 2014 when he thought he had the financial
wherewithal and public support to do so. But when the world is awash in oil,
prices dip, and the United States reigns as the largest gas and oil
producer, he hesitates. So he remained static between 2017 and 2020. .............To Read More...
- Dem presidents paved the way for Putin's Ukraine invasion - What have we got now? A hot mess that we have no control over. And we have Democrat foreign policy reminding us that they are large and in charge. We should all be worried. I know I am.
- Lesson from Ukraine -- Don't Give Up Your Guns (or Nukes) -
It may be too late for Ukraine -- let's make sure it's not too late for us.
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Russia strikes Ukraine -
Ukrainians are putting up a mighty fight for their homeland.
- Putin knows that Biden's hands are tied - It just keeps getting worse for Biden.
- Russia, feeling its oats, turns on Israel -At the U.N., which focused on Israel regardless of events in Ukraine, Russia went on the attack.
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