Palermo Trapani
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First, you appear to have forgotten about Nixon's trip to China. Back then, the US had competent leaders. We peeled China away from Russia. Post-1989, and certainly in this century, China has been the #1 adversary. Accordingly the simple logic: Peel Russia away from China. There is nothing complicated about this.
Second, all this talk of removing so-called dictators -- remove Saddam! remove Assad! remove Gadaffi! remove Putin! -- is a very bad intellectual habit that took root in the 1990s, during the unipolar moment. It is no way to conduct diplomacy or make policy.
Putin has the support of the entire Russian state. This is a fact. Deal with it.
I was against regime change in those countries, because the knuckleheads you remove and the ones you replace them with are often the same. If those different Muslim groups want to kill each other and fight, then trying to stop what amounts to civil wars is not worth getting US servicemen killed. I was opposed to every one of those operations. But in this case, Putin invaded another sovereign country and the USA is not going to invade Russia and do regime change, they are giving weapons to the Ukrainians to defend their country from Putin's invasion. If the Russians want to live with Putin, God Bless them, but him invading a country of 40 plus million who chose after the fall of the Soviet Union, freely, that they wanted nothing more to do with anything related to the former Soviet Union, that is different. If the Russians internally decide they want Putin gone, then God Bless them again.
So my personal opinion, if the Russian Military, Cyber hack groups, Oligarchs want Putin gone, let them do it internally.
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