Don't poke the Russian bear in the eye.

How close sometimes we become to voting in power crazy presidents. 


Since his defeat as the Republican Parties candidate for President,John McCain has appeared on American TV like a belligerent prizefighter wanting one last go in the ring. His message is that of someone who believes not only in the totality of American power but of her special inalienable right to boss other nations of the world around and just imagine, he came close to having his finger on the "button"!!!
There is no way to provide proof against having a mad man in the White House. We had a pretty desperate couple in Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. Their gung ho paranoia after 9/11 led to the war on Iraq and the terrible destabilisation within the Middle East which is still going through its latest re enactment of old unresolved power schisms in the attempt to reassert the concept of a Religious Caliphate by ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
The stand off in the Ukraine is again pretty desperate. The issues started when the USA pushed for more influence in the area and an involvement of NATO in a part of the world which is sensitive to its historical alignment with Russia. Part of the Warsaw Pact, these countries, along Russia's boarder made up the USSR.
Repopulated by, either Russian people, who had been encouraged in Stalins time to move into these boarder States or, as close cousins with natural ties to Russian ideology and temperament, in the balance of power, they are important to both sides. Russia still smarting under its defeat at the hands of American finance during the Cold War is trying to regain some sense of it traditional importance in the region and under Vladimir Putin a man with the appetite of an old Kremlin Apparatchik, he will use all the old methodology including sabre rattling to instil his way. Just as ruthless as a Republican smelling new dollars will do anything to be amongst them, so Putin will take the world to the brink to establish his position in the Slavic world.
Don't poke the Russian bear in the eye and not expect a painful reaction.