Why Is The USA Goading Russia Into War?

The OP must be a Republican. They are impotent without Putin's support. It's the only way they can get elected.

True, and General George S. Patton said we fought the Wrong Enemy, We should have fought the Commies instead, Now you see what is Happening Today with the Commies and Degeneracy, and Communism killed far more than the Germans did, If we had fought the Soviet Union then Communism would not have spread to Asia where Mao killed over 50 Million in China and Pol Pot killed almost Half The Cambodians including most of the educated ones and Soviet Russia killed many Millions in the Gulags, and the Forced Starvation of the Holdomer in 1932-1933, Read Pat Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War it explains why Communism is worse and Hitler wanted to send the Jews to Madagascar (Not to kill them) but Churchill put a Naval Blockade to stop the Madagascar Plan, Hitler offered the USA, Britain, and France to take the Jews, but those Countries said no. Schools don't teach The German Side of things, Magnus Hirchfield was trying to normalize Sexual Degeneracy which was a large part of what the Book Burnings in 1933 was about, Of course The Holocaust was Unfortunate, but it could have been prevented, Also Currently Many Countries would not put up with that Sexual Degeneracy, Most if not all of the Muslim Countries Most of the African Nations and probably most of the Asian countries as well as Eastern Europe, Why it is acceptable in The USA and Western Europe is Extremely Confusing, if you talk to most people they don't want that stuff either, So ABSOLUTELY fighting Germany was Dumb.

Lloyd Austin might be the dumbest Defense Secretary we've had in a while...

According to Austin, Putin is notbluffing because:

"we wouldn't be seeing the kinds of things in terms of, not only combat power, but also logistical support, medical support, combat aviation that we've seen in the region."

Like he thinks Putin is too stupid to be ready with medical and logistic personnel in the event this escalates... Or even just to drill this out in case it happens later down the line.

Hope this doesn't escalate to the war with the US because we have some incredibly stupid people running things.

Wow! Madagascar? The truth, the historical facts of what he actually did are well known. Hitler forced Jews into ghettos, forced labor camps, and death camps, and 6 Million Jewish people died.

Hitler was so bad that the US helped Russia with lend lease arms trades before we eventually entered the war. Then after Hitler was defeated, we became concerned about Soviet expansion and NATO was formed to prevent further Russian expansion into Western Europe and save West Germany form being "united" with the DDR as Soviet puppet state.

Ukraine needs to nuke russia

1. Biden needs to resolidify NATO after Trump fractured it. And nothing unites the alliance better than a common threat.

2. If Germany, and other countries stop buying LNG from Russia, they will have to buy it from somewhere else, including the US.

3. Stand-off benefits Putin because the perceived national security crisis rallies the nation behind the president. And then, he can later declare how his toughness made the West to make concessions.

4. The same goes for Biden. If he admits Russia has no intention of invading, he cannot say "our toughness prevented Russia from invasion."

5. It's a win-win for both Biden and Putin. But a war could still accidentally happen, even if no one really wants it.

This just in from CNN! Russia COULD attack at ANY time!

Damnit I was just about to post this. Good work.

U.S. and western nations are liars. Putin does not want to attack Ukraine. I am not stating Putin will not attack, I am stating he does not want to attack. Think back to June 1st & 2nd, 1990. Some how Saddam Hussein rolled across Kuwait with about 100,000 mechanized vehicles and U.S. had no knowledge invasion of Kuwait was imminent. U.S. had satellites circling the globe, 1990. U.S. flew drones, 1990, but only for surveillance. Saddam Hussein was determined to obtain Kuwait. Obtaining Kuwait was not an attempt to negotiate. S. Hussein didn't leave app. 100,000 troops on Iraq/Kuwait border for weeks. Contrary to what current and former U.S. generals are stating on tv over the past several days, Putin does not want to invade Ukraine, Putin simply wants an agreement Ukraine will not be a N.A.T.O. member. N.A.T.O. will never invite Ukraine into their circle of members. Biden has the power to stop all this now. All Biden has to do is tell the truth: Ukraine Will Never Be A Member Of N.A.T.O.

There are no "intelligent Americans" on your side of the aisle.

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They gave up their nuclear weapons in exchange for a promise from Russia to respect their sovereignty. Woops!

Lol. No, you believing Pedodent Joe and his band of warmongers is just weird.

There was a time when 'liberals' claimed to be anti-war. We all know that is total BS.

However, in this situation, I agree with this somewhat principled 'liberal'.

Two evil ideologies don’t make a right. Both facism and Communism are evil. That’s the problem rate now in America. We have these two extremes fighting one another. The fascist Trumps versus the commie Bernie’s. Then you have the normal people caught in the middle having to put up with the bs.

The US is pushing Russia into war in Ukraine about as much as Sadam's WMD's pushed the US into war in Iraq. NATO expansion into Ukraine is dumb. But Russia threatening an all out invasion of Ukraine makes NATO expansion into Ukraine not seem so dumb after all. But the entire situation is just stupid in and stupid out. Separatists in the east have been waging a cowardly guerilla war since Russia took control of Crimea. Many in the western part of Ukraine would be happy to let the east become part of Russia in exchange for assurances that Russia will leave the rest of Ukraine alone and stop separatist violence. But the nationalists in Ukraine, who are basically somewhere between neo-nazis and garden variety fascists, do not want to give up an inch of the east and even fantasize about retaking Crimea from Russia. Then there is Zelensky. He ran as an anti-war candidate. For weeks he has been trying to down play Russia's troop build up. But now the nationalists are pretty much ready to carry out a coup against Zelensky if he gives Russia any territory in a resolution of the crisis. So, Zelensky has suddenly flipped and is begging the west to list out crippling sanctions that it would impose if Russia invades. Zelensky is scheduled to travel to Europe to attend a security conference this week. That is pretty much a signal to Russia that Zelensky has given up as he does not have the political power to give Russia any real concessions for fear of a coup by nationalist while at the same time understands that most in Ukraine do not want a war with Russia and that Russian forces will probably sweep through the country without much resistance.

The west fully understands this dynamic and is unwilling to twist Zelensky's arm to resolve the conflict because that would mean appearing to accede to Russian demands, which runs counter to decades of Western hegemonic principles of foreign relations. So, the West will just use this conflict as a justification for more defense spending and try to drive an economic wedge between Russia and Europe, knowing full well that Russia has fully prepared itself for sanctions and already pays its bills selling oil and does not need the West.

In the end, this will be know as the stupid war. Small groups of radicals in Ukraine created a crisis over nothing which the powerful countries exploited to do nothing more than create more tension in the region for no reason other than justifying more defense spending to further create tension in the region for yet another showdown in a former Soviet satellite.

Yes, clearly Biden and Pelosi are trying to drag the US into a war to short the market so they can make money. Biden and Pelosi will then wait the 5 years for the market to recover then spend all the money they made at the age 90. After all they need the money right? I’m sure the whole plan is worth WW3

Both Biden and Putin are wagging the dog.

"Never let a good crisis got to waste".

This analysis of Ukraine is pretty much what a colleague of mine who grew up in and left that area stated. He doesn't trust any of them.

Exactly