This Russo/Ukrainian War is About Revanche, not World Conquest

By Rich Kozlovich Tags:  P&D Geopolitics Edition: Russo/Ukrainian War, and Donald Trump

There are so many who keep coming up with conjectures of why it's imperative for America to become more and more involved in this Russo/Ukrainian War, and comparing the WWII Hitler scenario to this Russo/Ukraine war and Russia need for strategic depth represents in my opinion serious flaws in fact and logic. 

Hitler had every intention of taking over the world. The Putin policy is one of revanche. Equally vile I agree, but Putin’s incapable of going beyond that, and while in the past I believed without America in NATO he could have swept down the North European Plain right down into France with little trouble, we now know, even as weak and feckless as the NATO nations have been, that’s not what would have happened. But I understood even then, if Russia had swept down the NEP he simply wouldn’t have had the manpower, or the economic wherewithal, to keep it.

As for being NATO nation being right on Russia's borders; so what?  There is not one of these nations that had any intention of invading Russia, nor were they capable of it, and Putin knew it. 

He’s not going to invade these NATO nations because he’s incapable of it. He’s depleted his manpower, his industrial base is being shown to be seriously lacking, he depleting his economic advantage, and it won’t be long before he’s going to start cutting social services even more than he has. His military is filled with incompetent leaders and poorly trained personnel. And his demographic pyramid is a mess.

Right now, he’s turned into a geopolitical weakling having to rely on Iran and North Korea to meet his armament needs. The fact is Ukraine is corrupt and tyrannical as Russia, and if Europe chooses to continue to support them at least that’s understandable. They have skin in the game. We don’t.

We’re not responsible for this war and were not responsible for fixing it. We have no skin in this game, and we have no end plan. What we’re seeing is a war that will go on for years, at our expense, and with Zelenskyy and his corrupt tyrannical cabal skimming off millions of unaccountable dollars for their personal benefit, money we don’t have.

At some point when this ends, and it will end, guess who everyone will expect to fund Ukraine’s rebuilding? America! America’s wealth going to the the same corrupt thugs who’ve been in charge, whose corruption filled their coffers, and Biden’s, who failed to properly arm against Russia knowing full well Putin’s desire to make Ukraine part of Russia, and even the Clinton Foundation is now trying to get in at the feeding trough. This is all on them, and they're failure isn't our responsibility. If they weren't willing to defend themselves, how did their defense somehow become our responsibility? I see no reason to take on their failed responsibilities.

And again, why do so many keep harping on this false narrative about strategic depth? Against who? NATO? Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey, or how about Japan, or even Australia?  That’s a load of horsepucky! No one had any plans on attacking Russia! No one!!!!! No one on Russia’s borders had the military wherewithal to attack Russia, or for that matter the desire to do so. 

I do wish everyone would abandon that false narrative because that’s nothing but an illogical excuse to justify continued funding.

Russia Reconquista

July 10, 2022 By Alex Gordon

In Russian historiography, probably since the time of the historian Nikolai Karamzin, there is the term "gathering of the Russian land" or "gathering of the Russian lands. In the 19th century, this term was used to describe the process of reintegration, including through conquest, of the fragmented Russian principalities around different political centers that began in the 14th century.

On June 9, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the policies of Russian Emperor Peter the Great, who was engaged in "the return of the Russian lands." After Putin came to power, the tendency has crystallized to consider the Russian Federation the heir to two states: the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.  This perspective led to the legitimization of the "gathering of lands."

The lands held by the two predecessors of the Russian Federation include Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Baltics, Finland, Poland, Alaska, Ukraine, and Belorussia........To Read More... 

My Take -  All these pundits, many of the over educated and under smart, claiming that NATO expansion pushed Putin into this is a load of horsepucky.  Putin objected to these nations joining NATO claiming it put Russia in jeopardy is a blatant lie. He feared their joining NATO would prevent him from exercising control over their economies and their governments, and if they didn't cooperate he would attack them with impunity, as the Russians have done over and over again since the fall of the USSR.