The West was making real inroads with Russia before Putin came along.
It’s the same with every dictator there has ever been, they have to manufacture a war in order to justify their iron fist.
Capitalism isn’t the best by any stretch but one of the things it’s good at is making people realise that they will be much better off financially cooperating than having a pointless little war. War generates profits for the military industrial complex, but for everyone else they cost money.
The West was making real inroads with Russia before Putin came along.
It’s the same with every dictator there has ever been, they have to manufacture a war in order to justify their iron fist.
Capitalism isn’t the best by any stretch but one of the things it’s good at is making people realise that they will be much better off financially cooperating than having a pointless little war. War generates profits for the military industrial complex, but for everyone else they cost money.