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Originally Posted by curves2000
Saw an excellent documentary on PBS Frontline called "Putin and the President's" It's an inside look at how Putin has dealt with the 5 US President's he's had during his time as leader.
It's a fascinating, excellent piece but it doesn't appear to be available for streaming in Canada unless you have a way of bypassing it. For those who still have cable, it might be available Tuesday on PBS stations.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/d...he-presidents/ for the trailer.
Bottom line conclusion from America's standpoint, Putin will not be allowed to actually win this war but how do we stop him? He won't stop and should have been stopped years ago but massive mistakes over years have led to this.
I don't think people truly understand the scale and scope of the times we are living in regarding this. This conflict will most likely continue and expand and the west will probably get drawn in at some stage. As this documentary highlights, when Putin mention's to Bush, Ukraine is mine, butt out, with zero response, we should have believed him. With Obama, Putin think's "He's a paperweight, a stupid black man who won't respond" and Obama follows that to a T in his response (against the advice of VP Joe Biden and various US agencies) We should have believed him.
In 2007, at the Munich security conference, Putin pretty much told the world that he is going to rebuild the Soviet empire with Moscow as the center or power and he will try and deal with the ramifications as best as possible. We should have believed him.
I just hope that the powers at be, get this right in 2023.
The interviews from the documentary are available on Youtube and are all fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/@frontline/videos Julia Ioffe being my favorite! |
You can watch it on Youtube. At least in the region I'm in.
I feel the west has done the right thing with Putin. Personally I wish he didn't do what he did, unfortunately he went for it. He's beat now, he's 70yrs old, eventually he'll pass. Ukraine bent but didn't break, they themselves didn't believe Putin would attack. Moving forward Ukraine will be more a part of Europe than Russia and they'll be militarised in a way with the help of Europe that the US won't have to go around playing world police.
Russian gas is at a trickle into Europe, Asian buyers for their oil are turning the screws so they are getting below the capped price, while still pushing the same supply (e.g.: deflation for us whooooo). They've got a budget hole that will get harder and harder to plug because of sanctions. China learned a lesson that taking a punt at Taiwan isn't going to be a cake walk, so it should never happen.
Sounds like the world can start getting back to becoming a little better each day. LFG.
