Just Politics

[jbsliverer]

Putin is just China's bitch now. Putin is asking any non West gov that will deal with him to bail him out or back him. China and Putin already made deals before he started, but I don't think either one of them expected such resistance or the West to be unprecedented in the sanctions, with the geo-politics and geo-economics changed for ever.

And now Putin is in a quagmire trying to consolidate more power and recognition only to lose that goal having to depend on China as much as he has to now with China coming out on top so much. Instead of being equal partners as he probably planned, he's stuck with being China's bitch pretty much the rest of his life (which I hope isn't long).

But this war is far from over (really barely started) and won't be even when Ukraine finally falls except the tiny chance it doesn't. This war has to continue, and there is no way to return to status quo and will be a world economic and political war.

Just horrific that it had to violate a whole country and annihilate it's innocent people just for the whims of a few thirsting for total control. Consequences to criminality and changes must be made and it's going to take some sacrificing on all our parts for awhile to do it. But it will be nothing even mentionable compared to what the Ukrainians have had to endure.

But this is so much larger than just Ukraine now and needs to be. It's a world battle between democracy and tyranny, between good and evil, and between what is right and what is just plain wrong. It is time, long past time actually, to make a world closer to what it should be.

Don't know if the world has the strength and will to change for the good, but we better give it all we've got to try, and accept the challenge at least.

If we don't, it still will be a drastic change from what we're used to, just not anything that's got any worth and wasteland of demise.