Since the end of WWII, both the US and the USSR/Russia have been actively "stirring the pot". Did this really start at the Cuban Missile Crisis? Or even the Korean War? Is that what got both sides to realize the power of meddling in the other side's back yard? Putin exploited a number of years of US covert/overt actions against Russian interests to take back Ukraine as a first step in rebuilding Russia into a super-power. But there were also logical reasons for the US and EU to meddle in Ukraine. (notice I said "logical", not "justifiable".) And there were reasons for Russia doing what it did to provoke a response from the US and EU into Ukraine. And back and back and back.
With the fall of the USSR, the US had a chance to completely change this tit for tat dynamic (where's my reset button? :-) ) but did not. And so the cycle kept repeating. I'm sure a cogent POTUS would be able to highlight many of the agreements that Russia broke too.
Right now, both sides believe "If we let down our guard first, we are dead." I don't know how we get out of this, but I'm sure there is a way that smarter people than I can figure out. I have a feeling that solution just may go through India.
Leaders on both sides just see this as a game and don't care about the people that get ruined or killed. We are all just pieces on a game board for them.
we started it. if we could listen to PUtin and elect a non mindless Deep State lackey we might have a chance.
Since the end of WWII, both the US and the USSR/Russia have been actively "stirring the pot". Did this really start at the Cuban Missile Crisis? Or even the Korean War? Is that what got both sides to realize the power of meddling in the other side's back yard? Putin exploited a number of years of US covert/overt actions against Russian interests to take back Ukraine as a first step in rebuilding Russia into a super-power. But there were also logical reasons for the US and EU to meddle in Ukraine. (notice I said "logical", not "justifiable".) And there were reasons for Russia doing what it did to provoke a response from the US and EU into Ukraine. And back and back and back.
With the fall of the USSR, the US had a chance to completely change this tit for tat dynamic (where's my reset button? :-) ) but did not. And so the cycle kept repeating. I'm sure a cogent POTUS would be able to highlight many of the agreements that Russia broke too.
Right now, both sides believe "If we let down our guard first, we are dead." I don't know how we get out of this, but I'm sure there is a way that smarter people than I can figure out. I have a feeling that solution just may go through India.
Leaders on both sides just see this as a game and don't care about the people that get ruined or killed. We are all just pieces on a game board for them.
Your last paragraph. Bingo.