Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

Donald 2.0.  People keep asking his opinion like he has one, like he's not a bio-automaton.  But what if he is?

....."good enough" - I rest my case.  Yes, Putin is good enough, in the moral and geopolitical sewer.  If you live elsewhere, it's manifestly insufficient.  The world lives elsewhere.

Actually, sewer, as you call it, is the foundation upon which the world rests. People who think pretty facade can live levitated in the air are delusional.   Who put them up to this delusion and sustained it, and why?

Putin may not be brilliant, but he is clear eyed.

Those in charge in Washington really do not suffer from this delusion either, and in this they are fundamentally very much like Putin.    they merely perpetuate this delusion because makes the populous feel all self righteous and therefore pliable and uncritical of their action.     However unlike Putin they have long fallen out of the habit of thinking things through, because the fact that their last generation won the Cold War and they themselves command a great power, they think they can do no wrong.