If Israelis are good guys in their war against Hamas, then the Russians are absolute saints in their war against Ukraine. From Vasko Kohlmayer at lewrockwell.com:
For nearly two years now we have heard the claims that Putin is a power-crazed imperialist who is out to conquer Ukraine and other surrounding countries in order to realize his dream of reestablishing the Soviet Empire in Europe.
A case in point is a CNN piece titled “Restoration of Empire Is The Endgame For Russia’s Vladimir Putin” that ran in June of last year. In it we read:
“By summoning the memory of Peter the Great, it also becomes clear that Putin’s aims are driven by some sense of historical destiny. And Putin’s project of imperial restoration could – in theory – extend to other territories that once belonged to the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, something that should raise alarms in all the countries that emerged from the collapse of the USSR.”
Such statements, however, are completely detached from reality, since the evidence plainly shows that Putin’s plan was never to conquer even the whole of Ukraine much less any of the surrounding countries.
This becomes obvious when we juxtapose Putin’s military approach to Ukraine with that of Israel in Gaza.
When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he did so with some 190,000 troops.
As part of the Israeli government’s response to the October 7 attack by Hamas, it amassed 300,000 troops around the Gaza Strip in anticipation of a ground invasion.
