Comments by "M gronich" (@mgronich948) on "Fareed Zakaria: Right now, the odds favor Putin" video.

  1. A good summary of the recent history. But Fareed totally ignores the aggressive actions of the US. This crisis was started by the US. The US supplied 500M of weapons to Ukraine and the Turkish drones were very effective at destroying Russian armor in the Donbass. What happened in Georgia was about to repeat. So he moved 100K troop to discourage Zelensky from attacking Donbass. The US has tried to kill NS-2 by threats to sanction Germany. (This is phrased as sanctioning NS-2 but Ted Cruz sent letters to a dozen German company CEOs) That didn't work. So Blinken then started the fake propaganda campaign accusing Russia of planning to invade Ukraine. This campaign was successful with the public, but while western reporters asked, why not imposes sanctions BEFORE an invasion, the Germans balked. They see this as an economic war between US and Russia where Germany is asked to pay much higher prices for natural gas perhaps to the tune of 30 billion/year to subsidize the US-Russian economic war. Germany feels the US should fight its own war with its own money not ask Germany to pay 30B/yr for a war Germany doesn't want.
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