Patrick Christys: Putin plots the reconstruction of the Soviet Union because the West has become weak

Vladimir Putin is doing what he’s doing because of how weak the west has become. When he looks around now what does he see? He sees a United States of America with no clear leader.

Joe Biden is not running the country, Kamala Harris doesn’t appear capable either and so America, Russia’s old foe, is essentially rudderless.

Then there’s the UK – Boris Johnson has been under extreme pressure. In fact, he very nearly lost his job. Why? Because of cake, cheese and wine.

Justin Trudeau in Canada is essentially invoking civil war. Germany is in transition after many years of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin could turn their gas taps off whenever he wants.

Emmanuel Macron is, in my opinion, just a pound-shop Napoleon on a power-trip who allowed himself to be mugged off by Putin and his massively long table. And, crucially, the Western world has been on a push now, for some time, to remove borders.

To tell its citizens that borders are actually a bad thing and that national sovereignty is a dangerous and outdated concept put forward by small-minded racists.

Well, if we’ve been telling Putin for ages now that we don’t believe in borders or national sovereignty then why should we expect Putin to care about Ukraine’s? Why would he think that we’d care?

When Putin looks around he sees a Western world with weak leaders that appears not to care about borders. Is it any wonder he’s chosen to strike now? And there have been some absolutely terrible takes on this crisis from, you guessed it, those on the left.

Kamala Harris said: ‘I mean, listen, guys, we’re talking about the potential for war in Europe. I mean, let’s really take a moment to understand the significance of what we’re talking about. It’s been over 70 years. And through those 70 years… there has been peace and security. We are talking about the real possibility of war in Europe.’

That will come as a shock to the victims of the Yugoslavian Civil War, Russia’s actions in Georgia and Crimea…the Cold War… Jeremy Corbyn, never one to shy away from taking the side of this country’s enemies asked the House of Commons yesterday if Ben Wallace would support a 'reduction in the NATO presence on the border' to 'secure peace in the region', before his Peace and Justice group called for the UK to stop ‘aggressive posturing’…so it’s all our fault then?

Well, in a way, it is actually. But not in the same way Jeremy Corbyn has suggested. The West has been very arrogant for decades now, looking in at itself, assuming that it had nullified the Russian threat, taking its eye off the ball, focusing on things like internal national micro-aggressions while Putin plots the reconstruction of the Soviet Union.

I’m sure the people of Ukraine are very grateful that we’re pursuing a woke, green agenda, that America has elected a fossil, that the EU couldn’t run a bath, that Canada is being led by a catalogue model…I’m sure they are very grateful indeed.