In my opinion, and the way I feel, Russia isn't trying to war with anyone. People keep putting these headlines out, that sell people on that Russia has these pretentions, and I don't think they do.
Russia is quite happy building its economy and its sovereignty in a legitimate world economy and it is willing to defend its rights to do so.
Russia will never make the first strike. But it is willing to defend itself. I am just saying what I feel without using facts to support it. I think I'm right.
The whole thing is so obviously manufactured, in my opinion. You know, in every case from iraq to syria to libya, the real motivation behind the war was to shut own something that was going to disrupt the petrodollar and/or central banking system. Russia's central bank is not controlled by the group that controls the central banks in the rest of the world.
Russia's debt to GDP ratio is 18%. They almost don't owe these bankers anything, either. Is it any wonder that they have been trying to stop Russian oil and gas from being sold in Europe? I have been told that the exports are quite heavily taxed, and I can only surmise that those taxes have been going to paying down the debt, and not a lot else, this is quite extraordinary.
Russian agriculture is booming at the moment also. I think that actually, even with all the EU, AU, UK, Canada and USA combined, and considering how thinly spread already is US an other NATO military, whereas because Russia is no longer the giant USSR, all her soldiers are guarding only Russia, (Though perhaps holding chechnya an siberia an a few other territories is a bit of a waste, they are not terribly strategic anyway)...