that they're driving shit behind the scenes is totally fucking obvious.
....just like it was totally fucking obvious that western forces were running things in kiev.
i still can't fathom an actual invasion. and i still think they're wasting precious time. who controls a few factories in the east of ukraine isn't going to matter once those missiles are hovering over moscow.
conversely, if the americans are being smart about this, what they're doing right now is negotiating base rights in the baltics. and, indeed, where's mccain been over the last few days?
it's exciting footage and everything, and it's provocative to consider, but it's symptomatic of the horrifically shitty military tactics that have plagued the russians since....
....since stalin killed everybody that could have posed any threat to him, and centuries worth of russian military genius along with them.
they had me for a minute, they really did. i was thinking russian resurgence. but, this fool's errand is perhaps moscow's last hurrah, on the pivot of a historic shift in dominance in the slavic speaking world to nato-backed warsaw.
put bluntly: this is exactly what the americans wanted.
"imperial treachery!"
but it only works over and over, for thousands of years now, because the barbarians are idiots.
this could be byzantium tricking the bulgars into getting attacked from behind for the twenty-third (who is really counting?) time. are they *ever* going to figure it out? or is this worked into the unfolding of history?
second time as farce, ok. but this is more like being stuck on the wheel. egads....
