Ukraine crisis: The world according to Vladimir Putin

[kShehzad]

The west and the rest of world appear to be wondering why Vladimir Putin is doing what he has been doing to challenge the geostrategic balance of powers. To understand this mystery, one has to see who Putin is, what kind of Russia he inherited and what the world, particularly the US, did to his country or its sphere of influence.​

The Ukraine crisis is the topmost worry of the western world despite Omicron breaking records of Covid-19 cases in several countries, particularly in Europe and America in the four weeks of 2022. Russia has amassed troops on three sides of Ukrainian border, with the western side being guarded by the US-led Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) forces.

There is a serious threat that Russian President Vladimir Putin may order invasion of Ukraine any morning. The US and the UK have warned of “severe consequences” for Russia and Putin. Both countries have threatened to sanction Putin, the person, and not only the government that the 69-year-old Russian leader has been heading in some form or other for more than 21 years.

UKRAINE CRISIS​

The Ukraine crisis is not new. It just got revived with escalation in October-November last year. Sample this quote of former Nato supreme commander General Philip Breedlove from March 2014.

“The [Russian] force that is at the Ukrainian border now to the east is very, very sizable and very, very ready,” the US Air Force’s general had said back then. Philip Breedlove said Putin’s “Russia is acting much more like an adversary than a partner” while the Nato tried partnering with it for stability in Eurasia.
The arguments of Nato countries are not different seven years since then. Russia has built up deployment along the Ukrainian border that was not seen after the 2014 war in which Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine after the people of the peninsula voted for Russia in a referendum. The threat of another invasion of Ukraine has been looming large ever since.

WHAT IS DRIVING PUTIN?​

The west and the rest of world appear to be wondering why Putin is doing what he has been doing to challenge the geostrategic balance of powers. To understand this mystery, one has to see who Vladimir Putin is, what kind of Russia he inherited and what the world, particularly the US, did to his country or its sphere of influence.

When Putin invaded Ukraine to annex Crimea, it was a different world. Barack Obama was the US president. Donald Trump was yet to come on the scene. Xi Jinping was still calibrating his moves for China’s global domination. In India, a Modi wave was pushing a groundswell for majority mandate after 30 years. The seeds of “greatness” were taking roots.

Putin was determined to make Russia great again. Donald Trump made this a slogan for his election. The nationalist sentiment was same in China, India and some other big countries. It continues till date. Even Taliban of Afghanistan and Imran Khan of Pakistan talk about making their countries great again.

​

Ukraine crisis: The world according to Vladimir Putin

The west and the rest of world appear to be wondering why Vladimir Putin is doing what he has been doing to challenge the geostrategic balance of powers. To understand this mystery, one has to see who Putin is, what kind of Russia he inherited and what the world, particularly the US, did to his...

www.indiatoday.in

 

[eagle1462010]

It is Globalist Fear Porn..............To instill FEAR into the people of the world of WAR. As the world is rebelling at the Covid Games going on that has fucked over the planet.

So they need to let people look at something else to keep them from getting mad enough to kill the elites.

Any time PUTIN wants a fucking War.........just invade and we will KILL EACH OTHER OFF..........his fucking choice.....I wouldn't because Brandon might be Senile enough to push the big red button.

Well then..........no one will be left to give a shit anymore..........oh well.

 

[White 6]

The west and the rest of world appear to be wondering why Vladimir Putin is doing what he has been doing to challenge the geostrategic balance of powers. To understand this mystery, one has to see who Putin is, what kind of Russia he inherited and what the world, particularly the US, did to his country or its sphere of influence.​

The Ukraine crisis is the topmost worry of the western world despite Omicron breaking records of Covid-19 cases in several countries, particularly in Europe and America in the four weeks of 2022. Russia has amassed troops on three sides of Ukrainian border, with the western side being guarded by the US-led Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) forces.

There is a serious threat that Russian President Vladimir Putin may order invasion of Ukraine any morning. The US and the UK have warned of “severe consequences” for Russia and Putin. Both countries have threatened to sanction Putin, the person, and not only the government that the 69-year-old Russian leader has been heading in some form or other for more than 21 years.

UKRAINE CRISIS​

The Ukraine crisis is not new. It just got revived with escalation in October-November last year. Sample this quote of former Nato supreme commander General Philip Breedlove from March 2014.

“The [Russian] force that is at the Ukrainian border now to the east is very, very sizable and very, very ready,” the US Air Force’s general had said back then. Philip Breedlove said Putin’s “Russia is acting much more like an adversary than a partner” while the Nato tried partnering with it for stability in Eurasia.
The arguments of Nato countries are not different seven years since then. Russia has built up deployment along the Ukrainian border that was not seen after the 2014 war in which Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine after the people of the peninsula voted for Russia in a referendum. The threat of another invasion of Ukraine has been looming large ever since.

WHAT IS DRIVING PUTIN?​

The west and the rest of world appear to be wondering why Putin is doing what he has been doing to challenge the geostrategic balance of powers. To understand this mystery, one has to see who Vladimir Putin is, what kind of Russia he inherited and what the world, particularly the US, did to his country or its sphere of influence.





Putin was determined to make Russia great again. Donald Trump made this a slogan for his election. The nationalist sentiment was same in China, India and some other big countries. It continues till date. Even Taliban of Afghanistan and Imran Khan of Pakistan talk about making their countries great again.

WHO IS PUTIN?​

The push was more intense in Putin as it was much deeper in his worldview. To many in the outside world, Putin is a villain. But to majority of Russians (as reflected in elections and surveys), he is a hero who is always battling a tragedy, personal and national.

Putin was born after the death of two of his elder brothers. His grandfather was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the founder and consolidator of Soviet Russia. His father was a conscript, doing mandatory military service before joining the regular army. His maternal uncles and grandmother were victims of World War-II.

He began his martial arts training before entering teenage. He is a black belt holder. After completing his graduation with a thesis in business law, Putin joined Russian intelligence agency, KGB, in 1975 and stayed with it till 1991 when protests began against then President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Those were turbulent times witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall and disintegration of Soviet Union. Putin was in East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and took the sides of the rebels when Gorbachev was forced out in 1990-91 by his own admission.

His political rise happened in post-communist Russia in St Petersburg when Boris Yeltsin was the president of Russia. He grew in stature and influence through the 1990s to become the director of Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor intelligence agency of KGB, for which he had overseen recruitment and training in his final days with the agency. This was to be his bedrock of overwhelming command on Russia’s polity.

RUSSIA THAT PUTIN INHERITED​

Yeltsin made Putin prime minister in 1999 and went public with his wish to see him as his successor in the office of Russian president. Next year, Putin was the Russian president. He inherited a Russia that was hurt by disintegration of its empire and decline of the status of super-power in the past 10 years.
At one point, the Yeltsin government did not have enough money to pay salaries to Russian Army soldiers. A series of economic reforms encouraging business was announced by Putin. Arms and weapons industry was given a mega push to make Russia super exporter again.

The Russia that Putin inherited was losing its population at the rate of 10 lakh a year. It took 10 years for the Putin government to convince Russians to procreate. Without human resource, no country can progress. And especially when Russia was facing serious secession problem in Chechnya and expansion of Nato on its western borders.

HOW NATO SHAPED PUTIN​

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and economic anemia of Russia saw the US realising its Cold War ambition of choking the country from all sides. This is how US-led Nato cornered Russia while Putin was rising through the ranks in the country:

• Military action against Russia’s long-time ally (some say client) Saddam Hussein after Iraq invaded Kuwait. The booting out of Saddam Hussein forces was accomplished in a 100-hour military campaign in 1991. Iraq was some 10,000 kms from the US capital and merely 2,500 kms from the Russian capital but Moscow could not do anything while Washington DC pulversied its ally. If this was George Bush Senior, his son George Bush Junior ensured that Saddam Hussein was literally taken out of a rat hole in 2003 and hanged in 2006.
• A 10-week bombing campaign against Serbia to force the Serbs out of Kosovo in 1999. Serbian President Slobodon Milosevic was captured and died in imprisonment in The Hague, the Netherlands, shortly after he was denied permission for treatment of heart ailment in Russia. Slav nationalism connects Russians to Serbs. Again, the US could shove a knife from 7,500 kms away into the Russian wound.
• Invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, little over 10 years after Russia was forced to give up its Great Game in the region.
• Nato expansion towards Russia after 1997. If one looks at the Europe-Russia map, Nato has expanded greatly after 1997 making every country except Belarus and Ukraine as its members on Russia’s neighbourhood in the west.

TO PUSH NATO OUT, MAKE RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN​

To keep Nato at a distance, Putin ordered annexation of Crimea in 2014. Before that in 2008, Russia had invaded Georgia, which is still hoping to become a full-fledged member of Nato.

Russia’s aggression in Crimea signaled the beginning of Russia’s re-assertion on global scale. Putin intervened in Syria in 2015. Russia and Putin’s alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election became a global talking point.

Muscular Russian policy continued with fourth presidential election of Putin in 2018. The constitution was tweaked to make it possible for Putin to stay in office till 2036.

During the pandemic, Putin made it a point to announce the first Covid-19 vaccine in the world as early as mid-August 2020. The entire scientific community viewed it with suspicion but Putin became a champion of Russian-Slav nationalism at home. This gave him the confidence to challenge the US-led West over Ukraine with greater military risk.

Putin feels threatened by Nato presence in its neighbourhood the same way the US perceives threat from China’s military expansion. Back in 2014, when Putin dismembered Ukraine, Barack Obama had announced: “Europe and America are united in our support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people.”

“We are united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far.”

The US’s defence department, Pentagon said, “We continue to call for them [Russia and Putin] to remove their troops from Crimea.”

Clearly, in Putin’s worldview, the call need not be answered, neither in 2014 nor in 2022.

Really nice editorial, Rookie, kShehzad, a damn fine introductory of yourself to the board. Not sure we know your true goals or philosophical position, but I like your writing, at least for now. Welcome aboard.

 

[Otis Mayfield]

One expert said, Russia doesn't want to see Ukraine become successful. Putin doesn't want rich Ukrainians next door posing as an example for poor Russians.

I believe it.

Russia has a smaller GDP than Brazil. Russia has a similar GDP to Mexico and the corruption in the two countries is about the same.

So that's why Putin is putting the smack down on Ukraine, to keep Russians from seeing how shitty Russia has become.

 

[Donald H]

The west and the rest of world appear to be wondering why Vladimir Putin is doing what he has been doing to challenge the geostrategic balance of powers. To understand this mystery, one has to see who Putin is, what kind of Russia he inherited and what the world, particularly the US, did to his country or its sphere of influence.​

A well written and thorough analysis at first glance. Provide a link quickly or it could be deleted or closed. Did you write it or did you copy and paste.

I haven't read it completely and thoroughly yet because I'm more concerned with the link that is required on this board. More to come on this!

 

[Otis Mayfield]

A well written and thorough analysis at first glance. Provide a link quickly or it could be deleted or closed. Did you write it or did you copy and paste.

I haven't read it completely and thoroughly yet because I'm more concerned with the link that is required on this board. More to come on this!

Be careful @kShehzad

"Donald H" works for RT, "Russia Today". If he doesn't like what you wrote, he'll report you to the Kremlin.

 

[Doc7505]

The west and the rest of world appear to be wondering why Vladimir Putin is doing what he has been doing to challenge the geostrategic balance of powers. To understand this mystery, one has to see who Putin is, what kind of Russia he inherited and what the world, particularly the US, did to his country or its sphere of influence.​

The Ukraine crisis is the topmost worry of the western world despite Omicron breaking records of Covid-19 cases in several countries, particularly in Europe and America in the four weeks of 2022. Russia has amassed troops on three sides of Ukrainian border, with the western side being guarded by the US-led Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) forces.

There is a serious threat that Russian President Vladimir Putin may order invasion of Ukraine any morning. The US and the UK have warned of “severe consequences” for Russia and Putin. Both countries have threatened to sanction Putin, the person, and not only the government that the 69-year-old Russian leader has been heading in some form or other for more than 21 years.

UKRAINE CRISIS​

The Ukraine crisis is not new. It just got revived with escalation in October-November last year. Sample this quote of former Nato supreme commander General Philip Breedlove from March 2014.

“The [Russian] force that is at the Ukrainian border now to the east is very, very sizable and very, very ready,” the US Air Force’s general had said back then. Philip Breedlove said Putin’s “Russia is acting much more like an adversary than a partner” while the Nato tried partnering with it for stability in Eurasia.
The arguments of Nato countries are not different seven years since then. Russia has built up deployment along the Ukrainian border that was not seen after the 2014 war in which Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine after the people of the peninsula voted for Russia in a referendum. The threat of another invasion of Ukraine has been looming large ever since.

WHAT IS DRIVING PUTIN?​

The west and the rest of world appear to be wondering why Putin is doing what he has been doing to challenge the geostrategic balance of powers. To understand this mystery, one has to see who Vladimir Putin is, what kind of Russia he inherited and what the world, particularly the US, did to his country or its sphere of influence.





Putin was determined to make Russia great again. Donald Trump made this a slogan for his election. The nationalist sentiment was same in China, India and some other big countries. It continues till date. Even Taliban of Afghanistan and Imran Khan of Pakistan talk about making their countries great again.

WHO IS PUTIN?​

The push was more intense in Putin as it was much deeper in his worldview. To many in the outside world, Putin is a villain. But to majority of Russians (as reflected in elections and surveys), he is a hero who is always battling a tragedy, personal and national.

Putin was born after the death of two of his elder brothers. His grandfather was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the founder and consolidator of Soviet Russia. His father was a conscript, doing mandatory military service before joining the regular army. His maternal uncles and grandmother were victims of World War-II.

He began his martial arts training before entering teenage. He is a black belt holder. After completing his graduation with a thesis in business law, Putin joined Russian intelligence agency, KGB, in 1975 and stayed with it till 1991 when protests began against then President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Those were turbulent times witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall and disintegration of Soviet Union. Putin was in East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and took the sides of the rebels when Gorbachev was forced out in 1990-91 by his own admission.

His political rise happened in post-communist Russia in St Petersburg when Boris Yeltsin was the president of Russia. He grew in stature and influence through the 1990s to become the director of Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor intelligence agency of KGB, for which he had overseen recruitment and training in his final days with the agency. This was to be his bedrock of overwhelming command on Russia’s polity.

RUSSIA THAT PUTIN INHERITED​

Yeltsin made Putin prime minister in 1999 and went public with his wish to see him as his successor in the office of Russian president. Next year, Putin was the Russian president. He inherited a Russia that was hurt by disintegration of its empire and decline of the status of super-power in the past 10 years.
At one point, the Yeltsin government did not have enough money to pay salaries to Russian Army soldiers. A series of economic reforms encouraging business was announced by Putin. Arms and weapons industry was given a mega push to make Russia super exporter again.

The Russia that Putin inherited was losing its population at the rate of 10 lakh a year. It took 10 years for the Putin government to convince Russians to procreate. Without human resource, no country can progress. And especially when Russia was facing serious secession problem in Chechnya and expansion of Nato on its western borders.

HOW NATO SHAPED PUTIN​

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and economic anemia of Russia saw the US realising its Cold War ambition of choking the country from all sides. This is how US-led Nato cornered Russia while Putin was rising through the ranks in the country:

• Military action against Russia’s long-time ally (some say client) Saddam Hussein after Iraq invaded Kuwait. The booting out of Saddam Hussein forces was accomplished in a 100-hour military campaign in 1991. Iraq was some 10,000 kms from the US capital and merely 2,500 kms from the Russian capital but Moscow could not do anything while Washington DC pulversied its ally. If this was George Bush Senior, his son George Bush Junior ensured that Saddam Hussein was literally taken out of a rat hole in 2003 and hanged in 2006.
• A 10-week bombing campaign against Serbia to force the Serbs out of Kosovo in 1999. Serbian President Slobodon Milosevic was captured and died in imprisonment in The Hague, the Netherlands, shortly after he was denied permission for treatment of heart ailment in Russia. Slav nationalism connects Russians to Serbs. Again, the US could shove a knife from 7,500 kms away into the Russian wound.
• Invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, little over 10 years after Russia was forced to give up its Great Game in the region.
• Nato expansion towards Russia after 1997. If one looks at the Europe-Russia map, Nato has expanded greatly after 1997 making every country except Belarus and Ukraine as its members on Russia’s neighbourhood in the west.

TO PUSH NATO OUT, MAKE RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN​

To keep Nato at a distance, Putin ordered annexation of Crimea in 2014. Before that in 2008, Russia had invaded Georgia, which is still hoping to become a full-fledged member of Nato.

Russia’s aggression in Crimea signaled the beginning of Russia’s re-assertion on global scale. Putin intervened in Syria in 2015. Russia and Putin’s alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election became a global talking point.

Muscular Russian policy continued with fourth presidential election of Putin in 2018. The constitution was tweaked to make it possible for Putin to stay in office till 2036.

During the pandemic, Putin made it a point to announce the first Covid-19 vaccine in the world as early as mid-August 2020. The entire scientific community viewed it with suspicion but Putin became a champion of Russian-Slav nationalism at home. This gave him the confidence to challenge the US-led West over Ukraine with greater military risk.

Putin feels threatened by Nato presence in its neighbourhood the same way the US perceives threat from China’s military expansion. Back in 2014, when Putin dismembered Ukraine, Barack Obama had announced: “Europe and America are united in our support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people.”

“We are united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far.”

The US’s defence department, Pentagon said, “We continue to call for them [Russia and Putin] to remove their troops from Crimea.”

Clearly, in Putin’s worldview, the call need not be answered, neither in 2014 nor in 2022.

Indeed, your source is:
Ukraine crisis: The world according to Vladimir Putin
Now what is your opinion on the subject at hand?
Was it Joey Xi Bai Dung's show of weakness by allowing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be completed and the complete fiasco of the Afghanistan withdrawal give Vladimir Putin the impetus to finish his plans to absorb the Ukraine into his sphere of influence?

 

[kShehzad]

A well written and thorough analysis at first glance. Provide a link quickly or it could be deleted or closed. Did you write it or did you copy and paste.

I haven't read it completely and thoroughly yet because I'm more concerned with the link that is required on this board. More to come on this!

Ok sir. Inshallah next time I will attached link.