Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Hyping Russian Threat to Ukraine Date:   1/26/2022 8:38:56 AM

Read several opinio pieces that Biden is using a threat to Ukraine to take attention to all the failure's of his Administration.  It would turn out that the NATO is not as united on Russia as Biden would have us believe.  Germany is refusing to add troops; France thinks that we are driving Russia into China's arms.  

Some believe that Russia does not want to invade Ukraine, but wants to create deep divisions between the US and it's European allies, that will ulitmately result in the outster of the US in Europe.  It's pretty apparent that our influence is crumbling when the EU says that they want to negotiate with Putin, not have the US lead the negotiations.  

If this is true, Putin probably picked this time given the weakness of this Administration, the unpopularity of Biden in the US, and his total focus on COVID.