Si Vis Pacem, Para Vinum © Andrei Martyanov's Blog
... wrote a superb piece on "Suicide by Cop". Strongly suggest to read it. Especially this:
It is, however, Putin’s job to protect Russia and the people of Russia. By pushing the Ukrainians towards more and more dangerous provocations the Neocons were fully aware that they were pushing the Ukrainians into a type of “suicide by bear” folly. The sad truth is that Russia was given no other option than to do that which the Ukrainian people could not (or would not) do: denazify the Ukraine. And since the Ukraine could not be denazified, it had to be disarmed.
Also my friend Mike Krupa talks to my other friend Larry Johnson