Russia and Ukraine

[The Grand Nudger]

Not a chance in hell. Russia is an unrestructured empire. While the rest of us were learning..with frightful starts and stops..that colonialism was bad and wars of territorial expansion were bad, russia was learning that this was the preferred end state, instead. Now, nuts will pop in with some version of "they learned at the feet of the masters" - which may be true..but if so, what does it mean for russia to have taken only the worst lesson of the great western satan?

Weren't we already bad enough, lol? Cmon russia, stick to the status quo of fucking. Low and slow, enough to keep the peasants working instead of rioting..or worse, picking up guns and shooting back. That's the real fuck-up. The damage that russia has done to ukraine is astounding, dwarfed only by the damage it's done to itself. In 20 years time they'll be grumbling about how they didn't lose in ukraine, they got backstabbed by the generals and the politicians. They're saying it now, ffs.