There are various complex geo-political reasons why Russia is threatening to invade Ukraine but I'm going to give it a go by distilling the whole matter down to 3 salient points.
- Ukraine is right there next to Russia.
- Vladimir Putin wants to invade it.
- There is no point three.
OK, that's maybe a bit too simplistic but not by much.
Putin wants power for power's sake. He holds on to that power by being a tough ass son of a bitch and not by actually doing anything for the Russian people.
Life in Russia sucks. It's always cold, everything is a muted grey tone. The only thing to eat are beets and beets suck and are only good for making vodka.
Putin can't do anything about the cold and the grey and the beets. He can't make life better so he can only resort to be a tough ass son of a bitch to hold on to power.
One great way to be a tough ass son of a bitch is to invade another country. And Ukraine is just right there.
And Putin's in the mind set that technically Ukraine is not really another country but a part of Russia that wandered off. Ukraine used to be part of the old Soviet Union.
Putin also likes to think that Russia is still a major player in the world like in the old Soviet Union days.
Putin would like to make this Simpsons clip come to life.
So Putin wants to look like a tough ass son of a bitch by threatening to invade another country. Which would be Ukraine. Which is just right there.
To be fair, Putin has given the United States and NATO a way to keep Russia from invading Ukraine.
Do not make Ukraine a member of NATO.
Now here is an interesting point: guess who else does NOT want Ukraine joining NATO?
The United States and NATO!
There are various complex geo-political reasons why the United States and NATO do not want Ukraine to join NATO but I'm going to give it a go by distilling the whole matter down to 3 salient points.
- Ukraine is right there next to Russia.
- Vladimir Putin wants to invade it.
- There is no point three.
Maybe I do need to elaborate a bit.
Member nations of NATO have a pact that an attack on any one nation in NATO is an attack on all of them. Ukraine is trying really hard to be a good little nation but damn, Russia is always in the neighborhood causing trouble and NATO don't have time for that bullshit.
BUT...
The United States and NATO can't have Putin dictating terms on whether or not Ukraine can play or not. Forcing NATO to stand up and fight for the right to not do what Russia wants us to not do and not do it because Russia is telling us to not do it.
So have we got this straight yet?
United States: We don't want Ukraine to join NATO.
Russia: We will invade Ukraine if you do not agree that Ukraine cannot join NATO.
Ukraine: Can't we just be left the fuck alone already?
Just a couple of years ago, Ukraine had to deal with Rudy Giuliani poking around looking for dirt on Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton's emails and some shit. Hasn't Ukraine suffered enough?
Speaking of right wing nut jobs, guess where the right wing media pundits are falling in this whole Russia/Ukraine dust up?
Tucker Carlson wonders what the big deal is and why we can't just see Russia's side of this.
Other pundits seen the consternation of Russia invading a country with a democracy has just a lot of hoo-hah being stirred by President Joe Biden to distract us from inflation and high gas prices.
What ever happened to trying to support democracies who are under attack from aggressor nations?
Anyway, the people in Ukraine are scared to death of what is going to happen next as Russia keeps tightening the noose around Ukraine's borders.
And as far as Ulkrainians who are just trying to mind their own damn business and just live their lives, it's a threat that has nothing to do with them and yet their very lives are on the line.
By the time this posts, Russians tanks and soldiers may pouring over the border in Ukraine, ostensibly only because Putin wants to.
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