“The policy of the USA has always been to prevent Germany and Russia from cooperating more closely” Mar 31, 2022 https://mronline.org/2022/03/31/the-policy-of-the-usa-has-always-been-to-prevent-germany-and-russia-from-cooperating-more-closely/ Historical, political and economic contexts of the war in Ukraine:
Interview with Jacques Baud, conducted by Thomas Kaiser.
Putin is neither crazy nor has he lost touch with reality. He is a very methodical and systematic person. He assessedthat whether he carried out a “small” operation to protect the Donbas population or a “massive” operation, the consequences would be the same. He then went for the maximum solution.
The Western approach is based on the idea that if you destroy the infrastructure, the population will revolt against the unpopular dictator,
Russian approach? They want “demilitarisation” and “denazification”. our media claim that the Russians want to destroy everything, but that is obviously not true. Putin’s people think strategically. The Russians have a strategic thinking, an operational thinking, and a tactical thinking.
If you have nuclear weapons right on the border, there is very little warning time. During the press conference after Macron’s visit, and Putin made clear that if the distance between NATO and Russia was too small, this could inadvertently lead to complications. But the decisive element was at the start of the operation against Ukraine, when the French foreign minister threatened Putin by declaring that NATO was a nuclear power. Putin reacted to this by raising the alert level of his nuclear forces.
One can notice the total absence of the CIA and Western intelligence agencies in the entire discussion that preceded the Russian offensive. Everything Blinken told us came from a “Tiger Team” that he himself set up, within his department. These scenarios that were presented to us did not come from an intelligence analysis, but from self-styled experts who invented a scenario with a political agenda.