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I did have a thought on that, too. That is, if the USA burns itself to the ground in a new Civil War, a lot of world wide re-assessment and jockeying around will take place.

Understood, but I used the word "prevailing" meaning most of the time. For example, where I live the winds are prevailing from the west, meaning Buffalo gets most of the lake effect snow off Lake Erie, but I'm far enough east of Erie to not get as much. However, the once in a while winter North Easter will bury me in snow off Lake Ontario or a summer South Easter after a Southern hurricane will drop a lot of rain. Sounds like when Chernobyl went off a South Easter was in effect.

In this analogy, USA/NATO is "A", Russia is "C"..

I was making an analogy, a ironic reply to your "solution" of how to fix world problems. But communication is problematic here.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, you are funny!

I would go for punishing our current crop of politicians. We should mind our own business and let other countries deal with their own problems. The USA had meddled far too much in the business of other peoples. This needs to stop.
Since WW2, almost everything the USA has done is meddle in other peoples business to try to make other peoples do what WE think is best.

When I say Russia has little farming, I mean relative to its land mass. Most of Russia is frozen wasteland. I think Russia wants Ukraine primarily for the arable farmland of Ukraine.

Russia didnt control France. I think both France and Belgium were over run by the germans. I don't think Russia would want France at all- I don't know WHO would want to try taking over France by force. It would be like trying to take over USA by force. Just not going to work.

I agree. Biden wants #1 to keep Russia engaged and using Ukraine as a proxy. Problem with this is that Ukraine will be totally destroyed by Russia, who probably wont want it at that point anyway.
#2 is what Trump would negotiate and the war would be over. Russia wont be really happy, but this war doesn't do them any good really.

"If Ukraine is so much Russian, one would think that the people there would just be friendly to Russia"
They were being friendly to Russia and ELECTED a Pro-Russian president.
Then the Scumsucking Whores in DC fomented a coup to overthrow the pro russian elected leader and
replace him with a pro-NATO anti-Russian leader who has acted to persecute innocent pro-Russian people in Donbass.
The bastard scum neocons in DC did it, just as they attacked Iraq for no reason whatsoever (after 911),
just to make themselves powerful and their corrupt asshole friends rich. There were NO WMD's, just Lying scum in DC.
I trust neither Putin or DC, but I think Putin loves Russia, and DC hates America. DC hates me; I despise them.
I'd rather see DC punished than Putin. They deserve it for pushing the genocide plandemic. Nuke them.

I understand. Given that its right in your neighborhood and affects your life, more reason and less feelings is in order. Sometimes feelings give you advance notice of what IS fat, but feelings arent facts.

As to Russia and Ulraine and Taiwan, its really none of my business right now. We have so many more pressing problems right here in the USA like getting rid of Biden, The federal reserve money printing machine, incredibly more onerous regulations, etc. Lets fix that stuff before the USA just crashes under its own weight. In the meantime, let Ukraine deal with its neighbor

Not sure what that means. In any event, I really am not that interested in Russia or Ukraine or Taiwan for that matter. Its up to the people living there. We need to fix our spending patterns, the dollar, get rid of the Federal Reserve money printing, and get rid of the enfeebled Biden/Harris.

I have no idea who blew up that pipeline, nor is it my business really. I wouldn't support that the USA should blow it up, although we will never really prove it one way or the other.
As a country, we stick our noses into other countries business and shouldn't do it.
I don't accept that Russia got Trump elected, although if they did, whoopee ! Trump was our greatest president. I don't accept that Trump is a dictator . I do accept that Hillary was a lying sack of shit, and I really believe nothing she says.

I watched the Oliver Stone interview with Putin in its entirety. I actually had a reasonably positive view of Putin as a person, although I would NOT want to do anything that threatened his POWER. I don't think claiming free speech would save my ass.

Russia and Ukraine are so far away from anything that really affects my life that I really don't pay a lot of attention to them. I just look from afar and measure all the propaganda using what seems most reasonable. If I lived in Poland, I would probably check out all the propaganda on both sides more carefully.

I conclude that Putin IS a rather vicious dictator by what he does with his "adversaries" and the amount of wealth he somehow gets out of Russia and how he deals with his oligarchs.

I also conclude that he wants to use the whole "return mother Russia to its former glory" to help hold him in power and keep him from being assassinated.

If Ukraine is so much Russian, one would think that the people there would just be friendly to Russia and it wouldn't be necessary for Putin to put the iron grip on them.

Whether or not Ukraine joins Nato seems a bullshit point. Having Ukraine on the border of Russia seems actually the same as having Poland on the border of Russia. Sounds to me like Putin just wants more territory.

I am not in the position to engage in war with Russia. I would be more likely to "trust but verify" Russia, but try at treat them like an independent country and trade with them. If I was in Europe I might feel differently after having gone through many years of USSR oppressive rule but I think that's a European problem to solve. Here in the USA we need to keep ourselves defensively strong.

Source?

And the US then illegally blew up the Russian pipeline - an act of war - and crashed the economy of its ally Germany.
With allies like the US, I'd rather have enemies. At least I know what to expect from enemies.
term, you are buying into the US/NATO lying rubbish. Do you believe Russia got Trump elected, too?
And that Trump is a dictator who somehow never took dictatorial powers even when he could have?
And that Hitlery did nothing wrong with her email server, that she conveniently destroyed instead of
turning over the incriminating evidence of her TREASON when she got caught?
C'mon, man. Your opinions about Russia have no objective rational basis in evidence of any kind.

After the US civil war separating the free states in the south and central from the slave cities in the Northeast and West coast, your option 2 will come to pass.
Death to tyrants and traitors.
D.C. NIFO

Putin complains about Ukraine's govt subjecting its opposition to extreme cold or are you unaware how Putin treats his opposition?

Yes, Europe is a customer for Russia's oil and gas. Putin is far too smart to attack Europe when it is conquering itself.
All he has to do is wait for the morons in charge to collapse it.
Unfortunately, that will result in an area controlled by Islamic barbarians (like Minnesota) and Russia has no use for that either.

How about some unbiased data evidence to back up that opinion?
Bullshit stories from NATO, the US fedgov, Google, Facebook, and Ukraine are not evidence; they are misinformation and propaganda.

About the "prevailing Westerly winds.".

Chernobyl meltdown left radioactivity to the West and North - Poland, Germany, etc.

The explosion of the NATO stockpile of depleted uranium shells near Kiev last year, led to an uptick in radioactivity levels, again to the West.and North. The EU monitoring stations suddenly went on the fritz, of course, and this higher-than-normal radioactivity "news" squelched.

Thank you for the compliment, but I just call 'em as I see 'em. Apparently somebody doesn't agree as my other posts on the subject were voted down without an explanation. Oh well...

OMG, there is intelligent life here...

yes, Russia does not covet Western or even Eastern Europe, their goal is to bring an end to the 51st state, an entity created by the US, for the sole purpose of attacking Russia. Not to destroy the Slavic people who live there, but to eradicate the US-installed proxy institutions and Bandera followers..

I ~was~ being a bit snide there...