Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

Mighty warriors heroically chops off the nose and ears of a teenage girl so villainous and reprobate as to try to escape a forced marriage, to him.

Another epic feat of Taliban valor truly worthy of poetry for the ages.

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In this case, blaming the west, or particular the US, for what Russia is doing is spot on.   What Russia is doing is entirely reasonable under the circumstances.    We would be doing, and indeed have done, the same thing when we found ourselves facing a situation that is analogous to what Russia face now, as during the Cuban missile crisis.

The difference is soviet Union then, in the same role as where we find ourselves now, behaved more reasonably and respectably, and less hysterically, then we are doing now.

No contrived, self serving concept of rights can overshadow the fact that when nations are faced with critical strategic threat that can nullify its ability to act as an independent power, and it can address such a threat effectively by military means and no other, it will address it by military means.

Don’t put nations that can address critical threat by military means under critical threat and then deny it any other means to address it.    We heed and hawed and spewed all sorts of flimsy bullshit to deny Russia the means to address it by non military means.  So here we are.

Just because ideologues rule american political discourse and lawyers rule american society, and we think we are so great, we think our ideologues and lawyers will overawe other country’s strategists as well.

Blah, blah, blah.

yeah yeah yeah, trumpian “we are always right and we are geniuses”.