Redditards cheer as Ukraine assassinates CBRN general Igor Kirillov in Moscow
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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I don't really understand the West's wider strategic goal here in constantly antagonising and provoking Russia. It surely can't be as one-dimensional as leaving Trump a big mess to clean up when he gets into office, can it? There must be other motives at play here.
If America wanted to use Ukraine as a proxy and just bleed Russia of weapons and manpower then surely the status quo was sufficient. What's with these big, aggressive jabs into Russian territory?
They want to dominate the world. That is why they invaded Iraq. That is why they bombed Libya to smithereens. That is why they funded, armed and trained a dirty war in Syria that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
And that is why they move into Ukraine, even though Russia made it very clear that this was the brightest of red lines. They are also megalomaniacs, which is why they'd rather provoke Russia and try to instigate regime change there rather than to abandon their attempted conquest of Ukraine.
The west needs an enemy. Russia is convenient because they're at best a regional powerhouse and they can be viewed as undemocratic.
Whereas China is a real threat but the powers that be dont want to screw up their business dealings there.
The Obama administration were big believers in regime change. It's long been my belief that they wanted to topple Syria and Ukraine as a precursor to doing the same to Russia. As for why they'd do this now, it could be that they want to leave a wound deep enough that it does not heal in four years, when they'll have another opportunity to tear it open again.