David Johnson  publishes a daily Russian List, a collection of commentary by presstitutes and alleged "Russian experts."  I peruse these scribblings, and I seldom encounter anything the least bit intelligent.  In the US and its European puppets, "Russian analysis" consists of Russophobic rants.  Russia this, Russia that, and so on.  These ignorant rants have created a frame of mind among Western decision makers that is unreal and is deceiving Washington policy makers into fatal mistakes.  

I read that Russia has been defeated in Ukraine or will be.  I read that 4-star General Petraeus, one of the most stupid of Washington's political generals, has declared that Putin is desperate and in an irreversible situation and that Ukraine will become a NATO member after the victory against Russia.

I sit and ponder how a person this utterly stupid got to be a four-star US general.  God help us.

Back in the days of the Cold War in which I was involved, we listened to each other and debated who was responsible for the Cold War. The Committee on the President Danger, of which I was a member, also listened to the Soviets as well as to the American left who thought that the conflict existed in order to serve the interests of the budgets and power of the US military/security complex.

Never were Soviet leaders insulted and ignored in the manner that Putin has been.  President Reagan told the contingent that accompanied him to Reykjavik for his meeting with Gorbachev that anyone who took a rude or dismissal attitude toward the Soviet delegation would be fired on the spot.

In those long ago civilized days, the US government took no risks that could result in a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.