Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

as if ignoring that easily predicable and recognizable reality makes one blameless for the consequence,  so long as one can cocoon oneself in a shell of suitable self-righteousness selected specifically to be materially advantageous to oneself at other people’s expense.

Another swing, another miss.  

Right...or wrong.  Im suggesting that Russia owns their own decisions.  That Putin owns his own decisions.  Hey..though, by all means, tell me how Russia and Putin are but passive observers backed into situations that they have no agency in.... utterly at the whim of [checks notes]....the US?  If that's so, I guess we should just back them into a situation where invading other countries is the absolute worst thing they could do for their own interests - as that will surely make them stop doing whatever it is they think they're doing, and get them doing what we want...because it's not as if they could make any other choice.   /s

A TQ..is an explicit admission... that someone's point is factually accurate.

No, TQ is not an admission of any kind, it is a finger pointed at the hypocrisy in and self-obliviousness of the attempt to make such a point given the general standard set by one’s own actions,  irrespective of the validity of the point itself when seen in abstraction,  which is this case is also invalid.