Russian "grandmothers" may need to feel "pain" the way their counterparts in the Ukraine are being treated to before Putin is ready for "peace"

 

It never ceases to amaze the level of hypocrisy by the right in this country, and its failure of recognize the truth when locked in their alternate-reality world. Politicians and media from the demented side of the spectrum portray Joe Biden as “what weakness looks like” as he walked away from a podium after announcing new sanctions against Russia. But why are many people so reluctant to remember who was “reluctant” to sign off on even limited sanctions against Russian, thus emboldening Putin? Yes, let’s keep giving a pass to the man who preferred to sanction German companies in regard to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and this past January claimed that the Ukraine was “Europe’s problem.” For those who were among the 62 percent in a recent poll who think that Putin would not have invaded the Ukraine if Donald “Peace in our Time” Trump was still president, the evidence provided here…

 

 

…suggests that Trump was so afraid of being a "loser" that he was more like this man…

 

 

…rather than this one:

 

 

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was convinced that Hitler would be “satisfied” with just absorbing the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and “peace” was at hand. Instead, Hitler’s signature wasn’t worth the paper that Chamberlain waved before the crowd. So too is any claims of Putin wanting “peace,” unless it is letting him “peacefully” invade a country that is only a “threat” to Russia because Putin desired it for his own nefarious purposes. It was Trump’s blind “friendship” with Putin, and admiration of Putin’s unchecked authoritarianism that laid the groundwork for Putin’s actions now. That being said, what we've seen so far is that Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has more guts in his pinky finger than what's in Trump's bloated carcass--or in Putin's, although with him, "guts" has less to do with his actions than delusion.

Trump would have initiated no actions on his own to stop Putin’s forces from invading the Ukraine—and he would have had support from Russian sympathizers in his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News; unlike Chamberlain, who recognized his error and would still be in office long enough to declare war on Germany in 1939, Trump still would believe that his “personal magnetism” was sufficient, when behind closed doors Putin would just be seeing him as a politically naïve fool who could be taken advantage of. Furthermore, no one should take seriously any after-the-fact “tough talk” from Trump now, or the hypocrisies of the right-wing media or politicians, who are essentially behaving anti-American, if not treasonous.

In the meantime, there had been great reluctance to implement blocking Russian access to The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) payments system, which makes it easy for banks, business and individuals to make financial transfers internationally. Last week Germany’s foreign minister Annabelle Baerbock insisted that there were no plans to implement SWIFT sanctions against Russia, even though the current sanctions seem to have little effect on Putin, except to excite more off-the-rails commentary from him, such as readying Russia’s “nuclear option”—as if he hasn’t already used it in a fashion. It appears that after Russian troops occupied the Chernobyl nuclear plant facilities, they deliberately caused further damage to it, which then released higher levels of radiation, according to Ukraine sources.

Thus we don’t have to “imagine” what Putin is capable of doing, because he is already doing it. So while Putin's actions have dredged up old memories for what Germany once did that I suspect Germans would prefer to leave buried in the past, Baerbock insisted that implementing SWIFT sanctions would “hurt” Russian “grandmothers” living abroad. Huh? What about grandmothers in the Ukraine, whose homes are being shelled by Russian missiles? You think Ukrainians don't really hate Russia now?

 

 

So only “targeted” Russians should feel any pain, according to some. We might see more anti-war protesting in Russia if the people there—instead of being safe from the horrors that Putin and the Russian military is inflicting on Ukrainian grandmothers, feel a little “pain” too. It seems that the U.S. and the EU have gotten the “message,” since it is now reported that limited SWIFT sanctions have been visited upon certain Russian entities; their effect is already being felt as Putin has supposedly agreed to “discussions” with Ukrainian representatives to be held in Belarus (although you still have to depend on Putin's unreliable "word" on that), and Russian forces are facing “surprising” resistance in the Ukraine at the moment.