Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

the good that will come of it the fact that the pile of ukrainian and russian corpses resulting from Russian effort to keep NATO out of ukraine will be a insignificant molehill next to the real mountain of corpses that will no doubt accumulate if an America, establishing a window of opportunity in which it is unconstrained by the balance of nuclear power,  take advantage of this window to attempt to aggrandize itself in Eurasia, particularly east asia and the west pacific,  and consolidate its hegemony there.   Its last attempt to do the similar in Iraq may have inflicted only a few thousand direct american dead, it’s direct and long term consequences in the iraq, syria, and afghanistan likely resulted in several million excess deaths across the region.