The reason this happened is because we have become an unserious country with too many people thinking politics is a team sport. My heart breaks for the Ukrainians and actually for the Russian people as well.
The Ukrainians will live through incredible devastation but they will come through this. The Russian people will live with shame of this destruction for decades.
Ditto.
Met a Russian woman a few weeks ago who has been an American citizen for the last 20 years.
We started talking about current events, Putin and Biden.
Her 80 yo mom who lives in Moscow has failing health and she can't go home to take care of her. Her mom can't get the eye injection she needs to keep her sight. She has family members in Russia who are taking a way worse financial hits than we are.
She switched her speech to Russian for about a minute. I heard the words Putin and Biden a few times.
When she switched back to english, she informed me I just heard some major Russian curse words!! (Wish she did it in English so I could agree!)