steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
From a brief survey of history it is more like Russia never really existed.Ukraine is Russia, it has never been independent country. It has always been part of Russia an/or Poland.
Their behavior for the last 30 and especially last 10 years is a proof that they are incapable to be independent.
Russia agreed to Ukrainian independence and security in exchange for its nuclear weapons after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With maybe one or two exceptions the former Spvoet clent stes a=chose to along with a free Europe and the EU, and NATO. They all rejected Russia.
Putn is obsessed with an imagined glorious Soviet empire that was never very glorious. It never mt basic needs of the peole, and was brutal and authoritarian. Held together by milady force. I remember Poland and the Gadansk shipyard, Solidarity.
In contrast a NATO and EU as a voluntary association for the common good and support of rights.
Putin thought it would take a few weeks and here we are. From reporting in Europe there is growing support for a more direct involvement by NATO.
The suffering inflicted by Putin out of greed and personal glory is beyond words. In his own words the goal is the elimination of Ukrainian culture to be replaced by Russia,
I'd think considering theuffering Rudsia endured durng WWII woud nake Russia sympathetic, appaenty it is not an elemn of Rissian culture. Only brutality.
Right now I would supprt a full scale NATO mobilzation to push Russia out of Ukraine.