[CondoleezzaProtege]

excuse me let me rephrase

Sorry there’s no moral equivalency whatsoever to what Russia is doing and has historically done as USSR — to whatever mistakes the USA has made. The USA has earned and deserved its place in the world.

Doesn’t mean we need to keep policing it. It’s time for other countries aka our “allies” to step up to the plate.

[DoodleBob]

In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union grew weaker and subsequently broke apart. That experience should serve as a good lesson for us, because it has shown us that the paralysis of power and will is the first step towards complete degradation and oblivion. We lost confidence for only one moment, but it was enough to disrupt the balance of forces in the world....The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a redivision of the world, and the norms of international law that developed by that time – and the most important of them, the fundamental norms that were adopted following WWII and largely formalised its outcome – came in the way of those who declared themselves the winners of the Cold War.

There it is...in black and white..."my predecessors (oh, and me...I was part of the USSR) lost the Cold War because we didn't kill enough protestors. We should have gunned down the people standing on The Wall - that's being "tough." Since my theatre of being pro-God and anti gay isn't winning me enough fans globally, and since I'm still butt hurt over communism being hated everywhere except Harvard, I will crush on the Ukraine."