A dissenting point of view from the narrative we've been fed for the last 4 months. In opposition, officer Richard Black who served from the frontlines of the Vietnam war and in higher positions until 1994, says (at many points similar to Pat Buchanan's view of NATO and a failed U.S. policy that has unnecessarily made an enemy of post-Soviet Russia by not disbanding NATO when the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, and in further expanding NATO into former Warsaw Pact countries, and into former provinces of the former Soviet Union itself) has been pointlessly threatening toward Russia. And that threatening to expand NATO into Ukraine, on Russia's doorstep, is an intolerable last straw that Russia cannot permit.
And further unnecessarily runs a great risk of escalating to nuclear war.
The comments after are rather gushy. While I like his views and what evidence he cites, he says "I think...", "I believe..." and otherwise speculating is not making the case as well as he could. But he is certainly right that Russia has hypersonic missiles we dont, and has nuclear subs that could launch missiles just 20 miles off our shore and destroy Washington DC and all our major cities in minutes, and it's not worth the risk and unnecessary sabre-rattling of Biden and too many enabling establishment/RINO Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham.
