I read that trashy blog post. It is just the same drivel barbos has been peddling. Bullshit propaganda trying to hide by objecting to other propaganda. The author of that trash blog links to another post from her blog which attempts to shift blame for the war from Russia's bloody hands to the West. And it was of little surprise to me that she seems to be using the exact same line of faulty excuses barbos has tried feeding us here. Experts like Mearsheimer foresaw this conflict, so it must have been avoidable, and the West didn't avoid it, so it must be the West's fault. But let me explain something to you. The reason experts on politics in Russia foresaw this, but most other political experts didn't was because folks like Mearsheimer had enough experience to know that Russia isn't like other countries. Its politics and culture are sick. Its leadership is infected with delusional paranoia, corruption, and imperialist ambition. ("19th century thinkers")
Russia is a rabbid dog who took a bite out of Ukraine because it saw the West getting too close. Should we then blame the West for getting too close? No. No other country save perhaps N. Korea would act the way Russia did because most other countries aren't lead by paranoid psychopaths with delusions of grandeur. (Or are they?... hmm... well, anyway). The provocations that Russia and her stooges claim as smoking guns to excuse their bad begavior (Victoria Nuland passing out cookies at the Euromaidan protest, neighboring countries freely and voluntarily entering into a defensive alliance, and Nazi sympathizers...existing(?) ) are nothigburgers in all the sane regions of the planet.
The dog bit because it is sick, not because it was provoked. If this dog didn't have nukes, I would recommend that it be put down.
My personal suspicion is that Democrats have been mad at Russia ever since they abandoned communism in 1991.
This comment is so out of touch, it makes me sad.
When he was running against Obama, Mitt Romney was ridiculed by most Dems (and more than a few Republicans) for insisting that Russia was "our Number one political foe.". Surely China was the greater threat? Not that decaying European capitalist democracy humbled by the fall of communism and struggling with its own human rights and corruption issues? No. It turns out Mitt was right. The Dems were wrong. Russia is far more dangerous than we thought.
