Comrade President Putin apparently Shot Himself in the Behind by Supporting Separatists in Ukraine — After Those Cretins Evidently Shot Down a Malaysian Airliner — so Much for Putin’s Visions of Adroitly Conducted Russian Expansionism

© 2014 Peter Free

 

19 July 2014

 

 

One really does need to examine the quality of the people one hangs out with

 

Unless one is intentionally crafting a policy of expanding the scope of pointless terror.

 

I doubt that this was Comrade President Putin’s intention, when he started pushing back against decades of Western encroachment on History’s accepted sphere of Russian influence.

 

Unfortunately, when one throws a hidden hand in with a bunch of viciously stupid separatists, one tends to slime oneself in the process.  By pretending not to be involved with destabilizing Ukraine, the Russian President appears to have retreated so far from overt control of the undermining process that he failed to quell the murderous bozos who very probably shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17. (See transcript of purported audio traffic between the separatists here.)

 

Where before the Federation president might have claimed some sympathy for resisting Western imperialism along Russia’s borders, he will have to do some exceptionally fancy dancing to demonstrate that he is just not a brain-dead throwback to Russia’s often misery-inducing past.

 

 

The moral? — Probably a good lesson in how not to conduct geopolitics

 

Machiavelli and Sun Tzu would both cringe at Putin’s ineptness.  The world’s most famous former KGB agent looks like a murderer and an idiot at the same time.

 

Of course, this might have been a clever CIA and/or Ukrainian plot to make Mr. Soviet look bad.  But even if it was, President Putin put himself in a weak position from which he was easily toppled.

 

We will see how the situation plays out.

 

As usual, the only certainty is that innocent people will continue to pay with their lives for other people’s ingrained nastiness.