but he s listening to the advice of very hardcore former kgb officers in russia who will not will not stop until ukraine is back to being part of russia, from their perspective. there s a reason this region is called the blood lands. cololnel, president biden says russia can still de-escalate here. but is that in vladimir putin s nature? not normally, john. very few times has he really de-escalated. every time he s done something, he has grabbed territory or made a huge imprint on the target country. probably the mildest attack he ever did was in 2007 against estonia and that was only a cyber attack. when he went after georgia, the country of georgia, and went after ukraine in 2014, that showed his true colors. and it s not in his nature to
Georg Hegel once stated: ”What experience and history teach is this that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it