Besides Turley's expected due to simping for Putin and Dugin spin on "mismanagement" being 180 degree wrong (the West wasn't too expansionist, the West skimped out on the "para bellum" part of "si vis pacem, para bellum" too much), Peterson sounds pretty accurate, specifically on the layer of Russian public socio-political narrative rather than what the elites think and do themselves. In the world of el presidentes, dictators and strongmen, just like in gangs and even among predatory animals, there is no provocation greater than apparent weakness, and a lot of stupid shit the West does now is pretty much that, intentionally or not, that's how it's bound to be perceived by simpler folks. The true danger is in the predators of the world stage not realizing that these idiotic gestures that look like weakness are in some degree just virtue signalling shows rather reflections of true state of things, while having the opposite perception error in regard to themselves, trying to appear stronger than they really are, and Putin at least has failed to correct for both.
Point in case:
VLADIMIR Putin believed NATO would disintegrate and Western countries beg Russia not to harm them after he invaded Ukraine, leaked spy docs show. As the Russian death toll in the Ukraine war passes…
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According to supposed leaked FSB documents, this is how Putin and company expected the West to react to his special military operation.
So the irony here is, if the West was doing what certain people accuse it of as being "provocative" and was truly unapologetically expansionist, Russia (and several others) would be in fact afraid and acting accordingly rather than making aggressive demands about "security concerns" and things would not go the way they did.
