As I spent 11 years in America, and as I have lived in many other countries, including my native South Africa, I know just how much America interferes in the internal affairs of other countries. Perhaps it's time you wised up?

For instance, when I was living in South Africa, if I recived money from another country, the process took 2 or 3 hours at the bank. I had to provide the most incredibly amoutn of documentation. Why? Because the American IRS wanted it that way so that they could what money was being received by Americans, etc.

In 1975, when I arrived back from London to South Africa, I found out that South Africa had gone to war with Angola. Nobody in South Africa knew that because there was a press veto. it took three years to find out, and meantime South African soldiers were dying.

Why did South Africa go to war against Angola? Because the American CIA wanted South Africa to. I could go on.

America has repeatedly gone to war with other countries for no other reason than vengeance, e.g. Afghanistan or Iraq. Everytime Americ an intervenes in another country, there is a flood of refugees.

As I am currently living in Europe, the last thing I want is planes and bombs going off. Russia is going to take Ukraine. There is no way to prevent that. The alternative, a world war, is too horrible to contemplate.

As for figuring out what Putin wants, sorry, that's just an opinion. You can't prove that. Nor can anyone else.