"The Saker" is a pro-Putin Russian-American blog with some traction in the alternative milieu. I don´t really follow it, so I can´t say how good or relevant its analyses might be. The article linked to below is nevertheless interesting.
Note that the Saker proposes that *both* NATO, Russia and the current government in Kiev want to partition the Ukraine. A partition would be good even for the Ukrainian government, since that way it would get rid of the pro-Russian provinces in the east, consolidating its control over a more reliably anti-Russian polity.
The Saker also believes that NATO has no plans to *actually* defend the Ukraine against a Russian invasion. Rather, the plan is to provoke Russia to attack, and then use the war as a pretext to strengthen unity within the Western bloc, both between the US and the EU, and within the EU. (I suppose this could be used to swiftly convince Sweden and Finland to join NATO, for instance.)
What the Saker wants Russia to do about it, is less clear. It certainly sounds as if he wants Russia to unleash a blitzkrieg against the Ukraine in order to teach the West a lesson. And yet, he also writes that a war with NATO-EU could be potentially suicidal for Russia, at least economically speaking...
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