Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   What Lies Behind The Curtain? Date:   2/21/2022 7:51:02 PM

Putin no longer sees the US as a "superpower".  After reading a lot this afternoon, it's clear that things in the Ukraine are not as cut and dried as Biden would have us believe.  Ukaine has been carrying out some level of retaliation against the seperatists and this low level conflict has been going on since 2014 with the annexation of Crimea.  

I wonder how much Ukraine has used that situation to leverage military and financial support from the Europeans and US?  We know that we have increased their security assistance (because of Trumps phone call), but how much else are we giving them?  And Biden has put our own troops on the border, which means that we may not have troops assigned to Ukraine, but they can certainly launch attacks from those positions against Russians.  

I was friends at one time with a Ukrainian born naturalized American citiizen and between conversations about Ukraine and doing some research on my own, I came to the conclusion that Ukraine history is that they like to leverage to their advantage.  Most of the country sided with Germany when Germany decided to attack Russia in WWII, but then suffered a price when the Russian pushed the Germans back.