The mind of a liberal is a mind of a person who is convinced that he is doing the right thing. His belief in the righteousness of his behavior makes him blind to its consequences. The Kremlin remains blind to the consequences of its endless toleration of insults and provocations, of its hesitancy, of its weak responses. The West sees in the Kremlin’s ready acceptance of indignities uncertainty, indecision, lack of will, and turns up the provocations.
The Kremlin’s behavior encourages and provokes the aggressive Western behavior that is leading to Armageddon. Putin talks tough but his actions are weak. Washington’s provocations have reached the point where Washington is directly engaged in war against Russia. Washington provides not only long range rocket systems to Ukraine, which will require Russian forces to enlarge the area of conquest in order to protect Donbass civilians from constant attack and thus widen the conflict, but also provides targeting information and personnel to operate the HIMARS system.
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It is the West that is aggressive, not Russia, and this is one source of the mounting danger of the conflict. The other source is the Kremlin’s acceptance of the West’s aggression. The Kremlin has been accepting Western aggression since 2007 when Putin called it out. Whereas Putin put it on notice, he has continued to accommodate Western aggression. This is the problem.