pcr presents a short history of the ukraine game and some of the results;

When It Comes to Conducting a War, the Kremlin Has Proven Its Incompetence

Paul Craig Roberts

To be clear, I respect Putin as a person.  He is humane.  He cares about life and civilization. He is a good person.  In fact, he is proving to be too good of a person to be dealing with the venal and corrupt West, and he has no idea how to conduct a war.

Putin thinks, or thought, that Russia and the West shared common values.  This shows how little Putin understands the West. The West is Washington, and the rest of the West are not independent countries but Washington’s puppets. None of Washington’s puppets represent their own citizens and neither does Washington. Washington’s values are measured only in dominance and money.

Washington is concerned only with its political, military, and financial hegemony over everyone else, including its own people who are waking up in each successive day in an ever tightening police state where the US Constitution is erased bit by bit, day by day.

The FBI has become a Gestapo for the Democrat Party.  The Western media is a propaganda ministry for Washington. Truth that is inconsistent with the ruling official narratives is suppressed.  The government and its presstitutes feed the people lies and tell them it is truth.

Putin gives speeches in which he shows that he understands this, but his actions do not reflect his understanding in his speeches.  The distance between Putin’s words and his action is almost infinite.

The Kremlin had to be totally out of touch with reality when the Kremlin thought that its “limited military operation” in Donbass would be allowed by Washington to be limited.  How anyone in the Kremlin could possibly have been this naive, this gullible, this uninformed is beyond my imagination.......more.......