Dakota Beacon

Just a few thoughts on the puzzle of why Putin has not decimated all of Ukraine.  It has been observed that Russia (Putin) does not want to overrun and occupy Ukraine.  This is not a territorial war at all.  Otherwise Putin would have been swift and sure and it would have been over with long ago.  Pre-pipe blowing up even.

It is worth considering to whom Ukraine’s welfare is more important - to the US as a puppet government to permit every kind of corruption - as a clearing house for drugs and human trafficking, as a launching pad for missiles aimed at Moscow and St. Petersburg, as a location for our illegal bioweapons labs, specializing in viruses and other pathogens designed to cause the most damage to the people of Russia, and perhaps most of all, as a central point for all kinds of money laundering for the Biden family and other American and European crooks?

Or is it more important to Russia as a prosperous, self-contained, neutral and independent nation - a buffer between hostile NATO countries bent on Russian destruction and the homeland?  It is not Russia who has been filling Ukraine with bioweapons labs.  It is not Russia who has been using Ukraine as a launching site for missiles aimed at Poland or western Europe.  It is not the Russians who have tampered with and engineered Ukrainian elections.  It is not Russia trying to re-configure the old Iron Curtain Soviet empire.  All of the above has been the work of the United States of America, just in reverse.  We should be so proud.   

In thinking of the Ukrainian situation from a Russian point of view, we could compare their relationship with Ukraine to ours with Mexico.  Here’s a hypothetical:  Would we be better off with a civilized, self-interested, productive Mexico on our own border?  Would we want Russian weapons positioned to annihilate America from the country of Mexico?  What if we found that Russia went in an deposed the Mexican president (whether we liked him or not) and replaced him with their own man through a fraudulent election, and then began ramping up an army of Chinese, Iranian, North Korean, Belarusian and other proxy forces under their direction in Mexico?  Would we perhaps see this as a threat?  It is exactly what these feckless American leaders have been doing.  What if we heard Russia’s leaders rejoicing that Americans were being killed, that this was a great bargain - to have them killed by “Mexico” so Russia didn’t have to get their hands dirty?  Well, that is what Lindsay Graham has been doing on the other side of this.  And if their Mexican president decided to sit down and work out a peace deal with America, how might we react if Russia ordered Belarusian president Lukashenko to rush in and intimidate and threaten this “Mexican president” and begin to pour billions of dollars into the campaign to attack America?  

Fortunately we don’t have that scenario just yet.  We have not been so threatened until now.  But this is what is happening over there.  What if part of it were for Mexico to capture our port at New Orleans or San Diego?  Let’s begin to think finally.  This isn’t a soccer game where we cheer one side or the other - it is the most serious conflict in the world right now, and it could get worse.  It is in the interest of the American people to get this ended NOW.  It is in our own best interest to get out of Ukraine altogether and encourage a return to normal - if that is ever possible - as soon as it can be affected.  Not only is it better for America, it is far, far better for Ukraine.  Should Ukraine desire to be a proxy for the US in eastern Europe?  To be used to threaten Russia?  WHY???  Or should they prefer to go back to their once-profitable industries, their agriculture, which supplied much of Europe and could have made them a very wealthy nation?  Corruption kills abundance and wealth faster than almost anything this side of war.  The only thing worse is to become an “ally” of the United States.  That can get you killed for nothing.

Putin most likely did not use the full force of Russian military strength to flatten Ukraine because he is taking the long view and sees a greater potential for Russian safety and prosperity in an independent, neutral and healthy Ukraine.