Our sole national interest in this region is staying the hell away and avoiding a war. If the Europeans want war, let THEM wage it. Fucking assholes. They want us to do their dirty work, but have never paid for any of it. Our soldiers are too good for this shit. Let Putin have the Crimea, and if Russia and Ukraine go to war, so be it. If Putin wants to keep marching, then we can think about it, but from where I am sitting, he is reacting to what he no doubt perceives as a Western sponsored, anti-Russian coup in the Ukraine.
Put another way, we started this. Why, I don’t know. We don’t need anything over there. It likely has something to do with the bankers who rule the world.
It would gratify me to see him put my financial plan into action. He can do it. Increasingly, I view the world through a prism of a fundamental conflict between the people of the world and the bankers, and the intermediaries through whom they act.
If someone can name me one strategic interest we have in the Ukraine beyond some amorphous concept like “credibility”, I will take this all back. Hell: we elected Obama twice. Why shouldn’t any right-thinking human being view us as a nation of gullible and weak imbeciles? I do.