Understanding Putin and Russia

There is a way that the U.S. and Europe look at things that is somewhat similar. And then there is a way that Putin and Russia look at things that is completely different than Europe and the U.S.

I think it's important to point out that the average Russian still believes that Gay people should be shot for starters and the average Russian might also believe that Black people are inferior to white people even though that sounds a lot like a NAZI kind of thinking.

So, if you were to imagine how the average Russian thinks it is much more similar to how people in the U.S. and Europe were about 1950 to 1955. And that is the problem.

Because in the U.S. and Europe in 1950 to 1955 people were paranoid. And likely people in Russia are paranoid too because of U.S. sanctions against Russia.

So, if you process all this, imagine that you were Russia and sanctions were sort of like a Hangman's noose around your neck. What would you do if Europe and the U.S. if they were the people putting this noose which is strangling you around your neck?

You wouldn't see it as justified because you would only think in terms that you needed to survive.

So, what would happen next?

So, I guess what I'm saying here is there might really be a war of some kind at some point between the U.S. and Russia with Europe supporting the U.S. through NATO.

However, because of nuclear weapons on all sides it wouldn't look like any kind of real war but more like the Cold War we had from 1945 to 1990.

So, this is something everyone needs to think more about.

What I'm saying here is Russians do not think sanctions were justified and just see them as a noose strangling them and nothing more. What would you do to survive?

So, sanctions combined with low oil prices might make Russia become much more warlike to survive in various ways as a country economically.

So, they likely won't have the effect at all that Europe and the U.S. wished.

So, this is something to think about too. Because if the point is moote because of completely different perceptions and a completely government controlled press and TV in Russia, the whole point of sanctions cannot ever have the effect that Europe and the U.S. wanted.

So, what now?