Do the upper echelon managers in the US Govt not understand anything about Russia? Are they so projective and hypocritical that they have no foundation to stand on in their ephemeral echo chamber?. Hubris, we know, is a dangerous infectious agent that strikes and spreads among people who populate the same cocktail circles without wearing gasmasks. To my knowldege, there is no ready to deploy antidote, ahem vaccine.
At the very outset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, I was sparring with one of my good friends in the States over the importance of Chinese President Xi’s support to Vladimir Putin for the pending military action when they met in Beijing during the Winter Olympics.
My good friend believed that Xi’s ‘go ahead’ made the whole venture possible.
I was skeptical that it was a decisive influence. Putin is a Realist in international affairs. And the school of Realism teaches that nations have interests, they do not have friends. I found it incredible that Putin would put the fate of his nation at risk on a wink and a nod from the big Chinese neighbor to the East. I saw the decisive factors in Putin’s decision to go to war as being within straightforward opportunity and threats analysis of Russia standing alone.
Surely nothing was…
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