The USSR and Czarist Russia may be history but their legacy lives. Although the strong-arm of the Soviets gave the appearance of a unified front the fact remains that Mother-Russia has always been an amalgamation of autonomous and semi-autonomous regions loosely bound by inference, population infusion and extraction, treaty or threat.
Presently on one side you have Putin, determined to preserve the continental Russian Federation (including the western boundary States of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) which, on all fronts, is at risk for fracturing and on the other side is the West (lead primarily by the U.S. & U.K.) who would love nothing more than to see Putin’s Russia fall victim to separatist fragmentation.
Western media, whether by design or pure ineptness, ignores the fact that both Russia and Ukraine (including its own semi-autonomous district of Crimea) have multiple co-operative treaties including, most critical, the accommodation of Russian Military and Naval bases in and around Sevestopol (Crimea). Russia, evidenced by the current U.S. administration’s naiveté and repetitive pattern of Military and Foreign Policy failures, knows that it would be far too conspicuous for the U.S. to assert a Military Option with which they are well aware of its (and the U.K.’s) destructive covert-ops capacity.
Although Russia has much at stake, economically and politically, never underestimate Putin’s ability and willingness to push-back in equally subversive, destructive and inconspicuous ways; Pakistan, Iran and Syria are among the more obvious examples.
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
