Tour d’Horizon by Ray with Scott Horton on Jan. 6, 2015, (40 minutes, starting at min. 2:00) Payback for Putin bailing Obama out on Syria in Sept. 2013, and preventing the wider war after which the neocons were lusting. Putin’s refusal to simply sit by after the Feb. 22, 2013 Nuland coup in Kiev; why Crimea and eastern Ukraine are strategically important to Russia; Putin’s openly stated primary concern (not a frivolous one) – i. e., the probability that U.S. missile defense system could lead Pentagon planners to believe, for the first time since the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, that the U.S. finally will have a first-strike capability. It will be even more dangerous and disruptive of the U.S.-Russia “balance of terror” – the equilibrium existing since the ABM Treaty – for Russian strategic planners to see no prudent alternative to that of resorting to the hair-trigger policy of “launch on warning.” Other front-burner issues discussed.
http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/06/10615-ray-mcgovern/