Could America End Up In An Open Conflict With Russia? - The Mehdi Hasan Show
As thousands of Russian troops amass at the Ukrainian border, President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin had a tense two-hour conversation today. Former ambassador Michael McFaul and The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel join Mehdi to discuss U.S./Russian relations. Aired on 12/07/2021.
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I went with my grandmother and her peace group back in the late '80s before the USSR fell. The main aim was to visit "our" sister town (my grandmother was living in Black Mountain, NC, and the "sister town" was Krasnaya Polyana, 2 hours up in the Caucasus Mountains and I was invited to "make up the numbers" since they needed 17 to make the trip), but we visited several cities and met with Soviet peace groups and the Russian people to not want war.
They were devastated by WWII which was fought on their own soil - there are monuments all over and even the smallest schools, like the one in our sister town, have plaques honoring former students who died in that war and special rooms set aside where current students can learn about the war. I remember one older lady, who had served as a nurse during WWII, said "Please, when you go back, tell your president that we want peace." So the people don't want war, though I can't speak for Putin. 