pcr is still amazed and may yet be learning this reality. the empire wants the russian nation to become  a large number of small toothless consumers states and fully under control just like the rest of the empire;

Can Armageddon Be Avoided?

Is the West, Lost in its Own Lies, Trapped in the Pending Disaster Washington Has Brewed?

Paul Craig Roberts

December is almost here and brings my quarterly appeal for your support. The situation in the world is more threatening than ever before. Putin has had to make it clear that a continuation of missile attacks on Russia will result in retribution. The new missile Putin has revealed can destroy all US and NATO military forces in the West and Middle East without the use of nuclear warheads. If the US then goes nuclear, Russian nuclear forces will destroy the entirety of the West.  Indeed, Steve Starr shows that the entire world will be the victim of American psychopaths.

In the face of such a warning, only totally irresponsible psychopaths would persist.  The sway of psychopaths over the US and Europe means we have to be concerned that Washington will “test the waters” by expending the permissible area and distance for the ATACMs to be fired into Russia.  I have been convinced that it would come to this crisis from day one of Putin’s limited military operation.  Russia needed to immediately knock Ukraine out before the West could get involved. Now the West’s prestige is on the line. Putin tolerated provocations in order to avoid widening the conflict, but his patience with the West backfired as it resulted in the belief that Putin’s warnings are meaningless as “he never does anything.” 

Putin has backed up as far as he can. His back is against the wall. Putin cannot accept missiles being fired into Russia by the US and NATO. At this point only psychopaths would “test the waters” which means playing with nuclear armageddon.  But psychopaths are in charge.  The Ukraine conflict was prepared and unleashed by US neoconservatives in the belief that it would destabilize Russia and perhaps lead to the breakup of the Russian Federation. Putin should not have let it go as far as he did before he acted. Putin was too slow to realize that Washington intends Russia’s destruction.........more.......