Wes Clark: Putin wants the West 'disarmed' into thinking his ambitions won't go beyond Ukraine

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A former commander of NATO is warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin's actual goals in attacking Ukraine are to establish "control over Eastern Europe" and to "shatter" the Western military alliance.

During an interview with CNN on Sunday, Wesley Clark, a retired US four-star general, also urged the West to provide more arms to Kyiv.

"He wants Ukraine," Clark said. "He wants the Baltic states. He wants control over Eastern Europe. He wants to shatter NATO, and he wants the United States out."

Clark, a military analyst for CNN who previously served as NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe from 1997 to 2000, said Putin sought to "disrupt the international system" and have the West "emotionally" and "morally disarmed" into believing that his ambitions would extend only to Ukraine.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-wants-west-disarmed-thinking-042429975.html

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. I think he's right.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Gen. Clark is right. Putin wants to be a dominant global power.

Ukraine is just the beginning.

[lagomorph777]

3. If we fall for Putin's plot, we deserve to be destroyed.

It's pretty obvious he's after world domination.

Ne needs to be crushed.

[rsdsharp]

4. We saw this movie before, in September 1938.

Hitler said he had more territorial demands after Czechoslovakia.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

5. I miss General Clark. I don't think this would be news

To Joe Biden.

So far it’s been the dems who have looked into Pootler’s soul and seen the black pit of nothingness there.

Pukes look and see a pathway to power.

[PortTack]

7. No..it's not news to President Biden nor President Zelensky or NATO. Pootie is done

[Lovie777]

6. Putin hates democracy . . ..

and I think majority in the world now knows what extent he will go, and it won't stop in Ukraine.

Apparently fake fox news and RW hate tv and hate radio rather embrace the opposite of democracy.

[Rebl2]

8. If putin

thinks we believe he won’t go beyond Ukraine he really does have a mental problem.

[halfulglas]

9. He wants Imperialist Russia and he wants to be Czar.

That is way more than just Ukraine. All those subject nations are to be slaves. That's why he the Russian soldier's bloodlust isn't being stopped. The population means nothing to him because he doesn't regard them as people.

[musclecar6]

11. Correct

He’s a sociopath/psychopath unhinged megalomaniac. Just like Hitler, it’s obvious what should happen to him. The sooner the better.

[elleng]

10. Thanks

[dalton99a]

12. Putin wants to destroy the Western alliance, not just Ukraine.

[marie999]

13. This is why I think that NATO has to send troops to Ukraine and destroy the Russian army.

I wrote this before and people wrote that would start WWIII. I don't think it would, but what if he attacks a NATO country? Are we then going to say that its only a small country so let's not do anything because that will start WWIII?