ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · Yesterday 22:57 That doesn't equate with the seriousness of what is happening. It is not as simple as that. Putin thought he would win the Ukraine. He made a mistake there, but it isn't Ukraine he wants. He wants to lay it waste - a no mans land if you will. He says he does not want a NATO country on his border. He is destroying cities, without any intention of rebuilding them. Terrorists from Syria are fighting for Russia. They have been promised land in the Ukraine, but won't get it provided we stop him. When he went into Syria he was after that part of the Med coast. He will have to work hard for it. Iran wants Lebanon. Between the two of them they can do a lot of harm. If they can win Israel, it will be impossible for the world to protect itself.
Turkey would do well to separate itself from those of the Arab world hell bent on conquering the world in their life time. They are uneducated goons who are incapable of thinking for themselves. They know only the ''listen to me, listen to me'' life. That makes Iran and Russia more powerful than anyone realises.
How did the Great War jingle go? 'Austria was Hungary, ate a bit of Turkey dipped in Greece. Long legged Italy kicked poor Sicily right into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.' Not so silly, just shows how conflict starts when no one is paying too much attention.
Putin is worse than Hitler, because he has not learned the lesson of Hitler's Nazis, or if he has, he wants to expand on it. That makes him even worse than Hitler. Hitler was killing millions of Jews for a decade before the world believed it, or was brave enough to stop him. Putin and Ayatollah whatshisname are attracted to that scenario, and they are dangerous.
He appears to want to recreate the USSR. Perhaps he does, but he wants to spread out far wider than East Europe. He wants a port on the Mediterranean Sea. He wants to control world trade, and he will not obtain either by just annexing more East European countries which have not yet joined NATO and the EU. Putin is looking to Scandinavia for some control of the North Sea. He thinks he can achieve that, and it is possible so long as the world is complacent.
His ally Iran is a danger to the world. Iran supplies Russia with artillery; supports terrorist groups and destroys the freedom of women, subjugating them, as does the Taliban. They divert attention from other things. Iran has long wanted access to sea - and for that it will do anything. Iraq longs for a friendly route to the sea as well. Putin's idea of creating another USSR is to rule the infrastructure of major countries, and shopping, trade, not invading countries because they are on his doorstep. China should be increasing the military on it's borders, because China is not going to allow Putin and the Ayatollah whatshisname to rule it's waves.