Putin is Laughing!

          Putin is laughing, because he knows things are going his way!

          How?

          From Russian history.

          Stalin had built a vast complex of countries in northern Europe called the Soviet Union, with Russia in charge. He also had designs on taking over Eastern and Western Europe. He succeeded with Eastern Europe, but was thwarted on Western Europe as the US established a collateral military defense (NATO) against the Soviet Union.

          Ronald Reagan then took over to eliminate the Soviet Union. He forced the Soviets to spend on military hardware, especially atomic, until they were bankrupt and the whole Soviet system collapsed.

          Putin now wants to reestablish the Soviet Union, and in doing so, he can be completely passive. Whereas Reagan forced the Soviet Union into collapse, the US is on a course of self-destruction, with no required action on Putin’s part.

          Putin sees the US as being on the verge of bankruptcy, with a $17 trillion debt from a number of major internal expenses primarily intended to equalize the economic status of all US citizens. This is a socialist idea, but one that never achieved any status in Russia, the so-called fatherland of socialism. The Russian government controlled every movement of Russian citizens and were never generous in opening government coffers to the Russian people.

          The Russian government was also astute in its expansionist learnings. It felt that controlling Afghanistan as part of the Soviet Union would be a strategic asset. However, it found that militarily it was almost impossible, and using good judgment it withdrew. The Russian government was further astute in recognizing that it should not meddle with the Middle East, because the Middle East was and is a quagmire of political and military action, which would never lead to any form of stability

          So, Putin is laughing! He now sees the great semi-bankrupt US falling into the quagmire of the Middle East, where it will spend billions and billions of dollars more to accelerate real bankruptcy. With the demise of NATO, Russia will take over all of Europe. Only the new Russian Soviet Union and China will then stand as world leaders.