Annex Canada!

"I wonder if President Xi is watching this with great interest. Like, maybe he could do the same to Taiwan. If he did, that could really be the match which starts this tender box on fire."

Okay. Just kidding. I was trying to get some raised eyebrows. Of course we would not annex Canada (although, as a young man, I would fantasize about it). Only a tyrant would think about illegally seizing a part(s) of another country and calling it his own. Oh, you mean like Putin. Have to hand it to him - this idea of seizing part of Ukraine and calling it part of Russia is so him. And then, should the Ukrainians try to reclaim THEIR land, Putin would call it an invasion of Russia, and retaliate in kind. What a putz!

Here is the plan. Only a nut ball like Putin could come up with something this dire. Take some territory in Ukraine. Install a puppet local government. Have a rigged election. When the results show that the people want to be part of Russia, declare that land now part of the Mother Land. Draft 300,000 more young people to act as soldiers. In reality, they will be nothing but target practice for the very experienced Ukraine fighters. When Russian forces start to get their butts kicked (again), Putin would declare a state of war on Ukraine for invading his territory. Nukes would also be threated. That is it in a nut shell.

What is this succeeded? More to come. What an easy way to grow your country. Meanwhile, Russia is coming apart at the seams. Riots, bloodshed, mayhem, the whole ball of wax. What does a tyrant to do? Threaten the protesters with long prison terms if they won't join Putin's army and become cannon fodder. Some international experts think it is now only a matter of time - before saner heads will prevail in Moscow. And then this mess will be fixed.

On the news this morning, it was reported the "results" from the elections are in. 90% of those who voted, want their part of Ukraine to be a part of Mother Russia. Must have been using Dominion voting machines to get that kind of result!

In any event, the next act is about to start. Zelenskyy has said numerous times, he is not giving up one inch of property to Russia. Contested land still belongs to Ukraine. Will Putin make good on his threat? That if Zelenskyy tries to take this land back, it will be viewed as an attack on Russia? Stay tuned on that one. 

I wonder if President Xi is watching this with great interest. Like, maybe he could do the same to Taiwan. If he did, that could really be the match which starts this tender box on fire. Or if Putin decides to go after Poland. Or Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania. NATO countries all. Then what? Article 5 kicks in and we are involved in a huge land war in Europe? And maybe Asia at the same time? That would be definition be a world war. Like World War III.

Mankind is hanging on by its fingernails to any sanity we have left. If we allow our most primitive tendencies to rule over sanity, our collective futures will be re-defined. And not in a good way. Why? War, the scourge of mankind, will have shown its ugly head once again. Who really wins in war? Nobody does. But we just can't seem to learn that lesson.