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/Sun Tzu
And I gotta say, I am extremely impressed with Putins strategy. He didn't even hide it, and it still worked over decades. A three or four decade long chess move. He is for sure one of history's great villains, but you can't help but respect the play. He brought the US to its knees without having to fire a single bullet.
Well ok a few very select bullets, but no hot confrontation. Just honey, rubles and polonium.
He studied his Tzu well! Or Napoleon, for that matter, or Caesar, or perhaps Machiavelli. Or Peter the Pretty Great but Perhaps Not So Great In Hindsight Great.
Divide et impera.
Alas, I wax latin...
I wouldn't give Putin too much credit. A lot of analysts have astutely observed that Putin can only start conflicts but can't finish them. Even Georgia is an unresolved business. But of course, that problem culminated with Ukraine. Decades of consolidating power for himself and rebuilding Russia's prestige is undone in just five years. Putin's Russia excel at information war but not actual physical war.
Russia has been weakened just as the US. The real winner is China.
No argument there. Our weakness is as much to blame as his... Whatever that is. Tsarism?