Remember it was Mike Pompeo who said, "We lie, we cheat, we steal."

This really isn't about Russia. They are just the current boogeyman to keep certain powers that be's pockets stuffed.

Personally I'm just munching on the popcorn, because in the non-too distant future, we will be helicoptering off the embassy roof, with Ukrainian flunkies grasping on the skids.

It's not about any sort of strategy. It's about the fact that with public government and private banking, the banks rule, so the only jobs the flunkies allowed in office have, is creating the debt the banks need to function. What they do with all the money they have to spend is their business. Consequently the stage actors have devolved into sociopaths, because they might wield enormous power, but have little to no real moral authority, to guide it. Basically delinquent children with matches and gasoline.

So once that enormous financial bubble bursts, they will be rushing for the door and then we will be getting pictures of all the weapons and cash they left behind, just like we are now getting out of Afghanistan.

Stupid is doing the same thing over and thinking you will get a different result.

All the strategic aptitude of bacteria racing across a petri dish.