Do you suppose any of the liberals are viewing the assault on Ukraine with a perspective of reality?  Why did it happen?  How will it end?  Were there any signs that it was coming?  Does everyone agree that Putin not only instigated it, I think that he has planned and worked for it since the end of the Cold War.  Putin has made no secret that he wanted to reconstruct the U.S.S.R. ever since its demise. Regardless of the fact that most of the breakaway countries citizenry believe that same demise was no less than an answer to years of prayers. But how to go about it?  Maybe like this:

1. Befriend those that vanquished you.

2. Enter into agreements with them promising anything that they want, arms limiting agreements, treaties with previous hostile nations, enter into trade agreements, infiltrate their colleges, supply former adversaries with necessary services (sometimes at lower prices), build infrastructure to facilitate delivery of goods, rebuild your military, supply your former foes enemies with whatever they want or need to attack your new “FRIENDS”.    

3. Make agreements to eliminate nukes in surrounding nations no matter what the conditions you have to accept.  He didn’t figure on living up to them anyway.  Now the biggie!         

4. Start lobbying the politicians of your former enemy.  Advance the lobbying to campaign contributions and then into full blown pay-offs.  Start small and increase the payoffs until you have heavy leverage.  Bestow as many of their  family as possible with advisory positions offering over the top salaries regardless of having ANY pertinent experience.  Generate blackmail-able material.   Categorize and store all such info, and get exaggerated testimonies from anyone that can support such claims.

5. Make arrangements with other despots that have plans to infiltrate and bring down the FORMER enemy.

6. Promote Socialism at every opportunity to show all of the, DOWNTRODDEN, (non self sufficient people) living on the largess of your former enemy that their world would be so much better with Socialism.  It would be more  “FAIR”

The world has seen other Putins. Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro to name some of the most recents. They all espoused the same ideas and they all ended up the same way. Their nations in ruins. Millions of people dead both from wars they created or by their “necessary” ethnic cleansing. Nobody was safe, even their closest allies. In fact they are probably the most at risk because they had, (sometimes), honestly joined the despot with the idea of improving peoples lives.  Even if that meant killing 3 million innocent “bad people”. The pattern seems to be the same no matter what time frame they live in. These “insiders” start as trusted advisors and are benefactors of an elevated lifestyle because of their position. SURELY they are important parts of a very nobel plan. History will surely will regard them kindly. Looking back though, that doesn’t seem to pan out.  Rommel, and hitlers advisors are a couple of examples. That is because when things start going badly these despots blame the people in advisory positions, even if they themselves ignored the input given them.  We will see.  Two days in and already things are not going as planned.  My heart and prayers are with the people of Ukraine.  As for Putin…… “BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH”!!!!!!!!    

Dave of the Woods