Trying to take a neutral stance on this, mainly because I don’t understand or haven’t read up on the fuller details.
What is clear to me though is that this will make or break NATO. If I recall correctly, NATO was set up after WWII with its main aim to combat the threat, ironically, of the Soviet Union. It’s therefore easy to see why Putin dislikes NATO and sees it as the rest of the world ‘ganging up on’ them.
These paltry sanctions announced by the UK and other western powers (deliberately spelled with a small P) will do nothing. Putin has got the Russian national debt down in recent years so they’re all set to handle a tight economic period. He has already got China on side when he met their President a few months ago, so we now have the equivalent of the West stopping Putin’s pocket money at the same time as he’s carrying out an armed robbery of a local bank, with an even wealthier, powerful and arguably more dangerous benefactor waiting in the wings to help if needed.
If NATO do nothing now they may as well disband, which would suit Putin.
He listens to no one, has already changed the constitutional rules so it’s not easy to oust him and he can remain as President for as long as he likes. Now he’s seeking to change the way the rest of the world can act. Technically because Ukraine aren’t yet part of NATO then there is no automatic military support for them by NATO members. So we’re hanging Ukraine out to dry, because engaging in a war when the rest of the world is rebounding from crippling COVID costs would be foolish, when the Russian winter is at its peak and when we all know that there are a handful of idiots running their countries who would happily dust down the nuclear button ready for a threat to use it.
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