It’s pretty obvious to everybody that Putin is making Russia the enemy. He didn’t have to do that; Europe desperately wanted Russia to be a friend, but Putin had other ideas. It’s his conscious and explicit choice to make Russia the enemy, and he’s the one constantly talking about being at war with the west. Nobody else js doing that but Putin.
The West was making real inroads with Russia before Putin came along.
It’s the same with every dictator there has ever been, they have to manufacture a war in order to justify their iron fist.
Capitalism isn’t the best by any stretch but one of the things it’s good at is making people realise that they will be much better off financially cooperating than having a pointless little war. War generates profits for the military industrial complex, but for everyone else they cost money.
It’s pretty obvious to everybody that Putin is making Russia the enemy. He didn’t have to do that; Europe desperately wanted Russia to be a friend, but Putin had other ideas. It’s his conscious and explicit choice to make Russia the enemy, and he’s the one constantly talking about being at war with the west. Nobody else js doing that but Putin.
The West was making real inroads with Russia before Putin came along.
It’s the same with every dictator there has ever been, they have to manufacture a war in order to justify their iron fist.
Capitalism isn’t the best by any stretch but one of the things it’s good at is making people realise that they will be much better off financially cooperating than having a pointless little war. War generates profits for the military industrial complex, but for everyone else they cost money.
he wants the old soviet union back, where they owned most the countries in central asia, and some of eastern europe.
He wants the old Russian Empire back. Owning all the countries yes, but not even pretending to care about everyday people.
They had their purpose, moving wealth back to Russia.