Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

and face the consequence for their choices.   hysterically indignant the west may outwardly be at the price Ukraine is paying, many a country have paid far, far steeper prices for exercising their right to pick allie’s unwisely and without appropriately gaming out the consequences to all involved and their probable reaction to these consequences.

Basically hysteria in the west or all an act foolish people on the street were put up to to serve much less sympathetic underlying motives.   NATO encouraged ukraine to act foolishly and then absorb the consequence because NATO wrote Ukraine off. Consequence t Ukrainian losses abs suffering does not signify so long as russia is thereby hurt.