Putin’s blunders

I have been banned from the Russian outlet, Sputnik for hostile and critical comments towards Russian diplomacy since the start of Putin’s era in 2000 and the repeated blunders of Putin since he took the power 24 years ago. From 2000 to 2022, Putin witnessed NATO’s expansion eastwards passing from 16 member states in 2004 to 30 on the eve of the so called special military operation and since there are two new member states, Finland and Sweden. Despite the false promises giving by the then US STATE SECREATRY James Baker who lured Gorbachev that NATO would not expand one inch eastwards. It is hardly understandable how Russian president who warned the West during his speech in 2007 at Munich conference dedicated to the security in Europe, didn’t take the appropriate actions to halt NATO’s expansion towards Russian borders. It is hardly understandable how Putin’s Russia allowed the overthrow of Yanukovych’s regime and the taking of power in Kiev by neo nazi groups, Azov groups, followers and nostalgic of Stepen Bandera without intervening to nip in the bud hostile regime in Ukraine as did without hesitation and without restraint  the USA and its European proxies following the demise of the USSR, the socialist bloc and the Warsaw Pact starting with Gulf s war in 1991, bombing of Serbia 25 years ago, dismantlement of ex Yugoslavia which enjoyed four decades of peace and ethnic and religious groups under Tito’s socialist regime, Afghanistan invasion in 2001, Iraq invasion in 2003, fomenting the so called the Arab spring to put in power radical and radical Jihadists in Egypt, in Libya after murdering its longtime leader Muammar Kadaffi, failed attempt of regime change in Syria, several colour revolutions in the ex Soviet Republics, in Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, in Lebanon in 2005 following the murder of the ex PM Rafic Hariri to oust Syrian troops from this country ravaged by 15 years of civil war(1975-1999), several failed attempts to get rid of the Chinese communist regime started in Tiananmen in June 1989 followed by fomenting ethnic and religious troubles in Tibet, the Ouigours, Hong Kong without citing attempt to overthrow the Bolivarian regime in Venezuela, the successful coup d’état against Evo Morales’s regime in Bolivia, the successful judiciary coup d’etat in Brazil overthrowing Dilma Rousseff’s elected government. The dramatic outcome of Putin’s blunders was the killing of 14000 Russian speaking populations in Donbass at the hands of neo nazi regime. Putin has been lured by the two Minsk accords aimed, according to Merkel and Holland, to give Kiev neo nazi regime enough time to build trenches and fortifications and to strengthen its army. In December 2021, Russia continued to be lured by diplomacy by sending memorandum to the USA and its European satellites asking for the conclusion of security guaranty treaty. Without receiving any response from the West. Once more, Putin has been deceived when the Russian army withdrew from Kiev region instead of advancing Ukrainian capital Kiev and proceeding to regime change and the setting of friendly government to Moscow. This latest blunder of Putin has given the USA and NATO state members enough time to enhance their military positions in Ukraine while Russia’s Putin has the strength and the military force to defeat both Ukraine and the its western backers in the first two months of the current war. Since more than two decades Putin and Lavrov appear to have utopic and moralist vision of international relations purportedly based upon diplomacy and negotiations as the only means to resolve the conflicts while the opposite is true as the very lessons of history teach us that the relationships between the states since Westphalia are founded on the force and the use of military as the only means to resolve the conflicts.