HISTORY is Rational  

Ah yes, Buddha, an intelligent attempt at reply.

But alas, "there is often a slip between the cup and the lip"

Putin has miscalculated?

Hardly. Putin is acting in what he correcvtly perceives as weakness in NATO and the western powers, the the obvious corruption of the western "democracies" in west, starting with the oligarchs who put this preent Presidential-puppet fraud in office.

Think about this.. Some History

 Ukraine has been a hotspot for Russia for 100 years at least.

Seekin a peace treaty, Leon Trotsky at the treaty of Brest-Litovisk refused to cede Ukraine as reparations for Russian involvement WWI. The Austro Hungarian empire got 20 Billion instead, funded by Wall Street. Why?

Because the Great Game had till then been played between the British Empire and Russia. The Seven'Stans were created as buffer states between British holdings in India and Russia. The British hated it when Alexander Kerensky deposed the Csar, they corrrectly understood  His ascendence might create the democratic constitutional republic he promised.

So they colaborated with their erstwhile enemies  ( the Germans) sending their agent Vladimir Lenin into Russia hoping to propagandize their way into destabilizing Kerensky's regime with the usual Marxist pablum. Promises of "Hope and Change" didnt persuade the Russian intelligensia any more than it did here when Obama used the same tactics ( except for our useful idiots, but I digress)

Then in one night Trotsky paklnned and led the "October Revolution" and killed tghe Csar, ending the Russian Military's hopes for a counter revolutiuon against Kerenski. In fact, with Mposcow in Bolshevik hands, Kerenski was deposed and Trotski became the leader of tyhe Red Army-- fighting a civil war with the "Whites" who had supported the Csar.

At this critical salient, when the Bolsehviks the were on their asses, beholden to  Austro-Hungarian demands for reparations, American Banksters saw their opportunity and funded the Soviets. We then sent our troops to enter WWI, and defeated the Germans, The League of Nations under Wilson demanding they pay US and  France reparations until 1989.

The German industrialists were pissed at the terms of the treaty of Versalles, leading to their version of "Make Germany Great Again" -- personified in Adolf Hitler's rise to Chancellor. Hitler, Like Putin saw the fact that Germanys fate then stood between  Western Financial powers control of  politics and finance, and sociopathyic marxist dictators backed by brutal force, used applied to destabilize entire countries, (think Katien Forrest.)

 Germany could resist, and so it did, invading France and Poland. Had it not been for Hitlers personal corruptions which affected his strategic thinking, we mihght have had a COLD war into the 1990s between German and Soviet Blocs and their allies.

But alas, Russian Communism was supported originall,y and has been so continually by  Wall Streets Amerrican Financiers...just as Marxist propaganda is today being used against our own people to destabilize this country -- You useful idiots cant see it, because you have zero understanding of history and philosophy.

Too busy bashing Trump to realize ( as the British ultimately were fprced to realioze during WWII) that the monster you create today ( Lenin) may grow up to turn on you and devour you tommorrow ( Stalin-Hitler)

Was the Soviet Union the "Evil Empire" President Reagan said it was?

Yes, of course it was. Commiunism is political thuggery at its finest, a raw and complete denial of human rights and personal freedoms -- the human rights theoretically enshrined in the founding documents and social institutions of the Democratic West.

But the unhappy truth is: Capitalism is the other head of that coin. The Uber Rich care as little for the masses as any sociopathic former Soviet Premir. Proxy wars in the late 20th century made the military industrial complex RICH, while the poor dutify ponied up the required BLOOD and the middle class the required  TREASURE on our side.

On the Soviet side of thge Cold war, one-third of the entire Soviet population was living in slave labor camps in Siberian GULAGS when the Berlin wall came down. Mt Gorbechev though the could reform the USSR, but it was already too far gone.

Yeltsin gave away the store. The British Oligarchs spent hundreds of billions on LUKOIL refinery upgrades, believeing they might eventuyally control and profit from Russian oil, and that LUKOIL stock would be traded on international stock exchanges.

Not so fast.

These same western financiers bought up Russian News agencies and put a former Colonel from the 5th Directorate  of the KGB ( Internal Security)  in charge of the country as "President" ...prersumably as their puppet---Vladimir Putin.

Putin, like Hitler had other plans, and unlike Hiltler, Putin is student of history. He played the long game, and when established in power NATIONALIZED Russian Oil.

Like the Democrats in the US, (as personified by her Evil Highness Hillary Clinton),  Putin stood to preside over a political-criminal enterprise based on disinformation and use of raw domestic and interrnatioal power, enriching himself and his supporters in the process. " Make Russia Great Again"

Remember,under Obozo, Creepy Joe fronted for the IMF. The western Banks bought control of Ukraine for One Billion dollars which went into the pockets of the corrupt Ukraining oligarchs Biden was doing business with, some of it ending up in BabB Bidens corrupy hands ( Hunter) with Joes complete complicity.

Trump tried to expose this corruption, and you silly LIBs "impeached" him for it.  Then, to get TRUMP out of Office, the Western Billionairs Launched COVID and rigged a national presidentialo Election...They soon  printed TRILLIONS-- DOUBLING the National debt, and creating double-digit inflation  for decieved lib middle class useful idiots like you, Buddha!

And while you fools still wring your hands about "TRUMP as Nexus of Evil" yiou ignore your feckless leader who  shut down trhe Keystone Pipeline. Europe is now vulnerable to Russian Oil supplies, and stupid Germans are still loicked down under your foolish COVID restrictions.. and thats thats just a start.

Putin obviously has considered all the above, and has rationally concluded, at this moment,  the West is a "paper tiger..". If the western Oligarchs wanted inflation  it seems a litte war in EUROPE wont upset that apple cart, now will it? Especial;ly since the demented old teleprompter reading fool in the White House wont  really do a damn thing about it. Talk is cheap.

Sanctions?

1. Has Brandon taken RUSSIA out of the international Banking systytem.. NO! (there has been a western Bank in continuous operation in Moscow sinvce 1917, ans still is)

2. Has Brandon  reopended the Keystone Pipeline, diminishing amnd eliminating the threat of a Russian Oil embargo?.. NO. (The Billionares want to use oil as a control over western econmomies. (like raising interest rates.. the real reason for so called "Climate Change" propaganda.)  

And in this context, Putin invading Ukraine makes complete sense from his perrspective. He doesnt want the NATO alliance occupying UKRAINE directly on his border ( National Security) .. And he wants a piece of the market action the IMF wanted to establish with Creey Joe as front man-- fracking Ukrainian oil and growing US proiduced frankenseed crops for sale and consumption in China.

Whose goona stop him?

Poetic Justice too, for Creepy Joe,  if you think about it!

Miss the Donald yet?

Oh and by trhe way, there is a Trucker Revolt starting here in the US as we speak.. (Even Facebook isnt censoring it. )

Will Creepy Joe, Like his evil twin north of the border ( Trudeau)  declare Amereican Truckers "Domestic Terrorists " and suspend their bank accounts?

The Soviets had Siberian GULAGS, but here in the US (under you tyrannical libs), you simply crush the poor and marginalized and middle class if they dont "wear their masks" etc

You zombies got it coming!

Remember-- YOU ASKED FOR IT!   

USEFUL IDIOTS!!