Welcoming Putin
After Russia invades Ukraine and installs a puppet regime, then what?
Western politicians certainly can’t say that they weren’t warned well in advance. The USA has for several years now been telling Germany that its over-reliance on Russian gas makes it supremely vulnerable to Russian manipulation, and that’s even before we take into account the fact the Kremlin has done a superb job of suborning Germans to its cause. Not only are there pro-Russian apologists spread across the media, but former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder pushed hard for Nordstream II when in office and has for the last few years been paid millions to front Gazprom as a senior Board member. This alone indicates just how deep and how pervasive Russian influence truly is.
Putin has never been subtle, but when your opponents are supine there’s no need for subtlety. It took months to amass 100,000 troops on the border of Ukraine, but now things are moving into high gear as Russia prepares for a pincer movement invasion, punching through to Kyiv from the client state of Belarus and from Ukraine’s eastern border. As the West did nothing meaningful after Putin invaded the Donbass, and likewise did nothing meaningful when Putin invaded Crimea, and once again did nothing meaningful as he built up his invasion force for his latest stunt, the Russian Tzar knows he has little to fear from…
