Putin..? Ooops i mean Bush and masters
I am tempted to take sides, but really, both are disgustingly disingenuous and hypocritical. I see making normative judgements re: the one side as being the good one, or another side as the bad one to be clouding the argument. W.W.S.S.? (What would Socrates say?) (Maybe we should separate morality/ethics from what is transpiring here: naked self-interest of the world’s sea-power versus the naked self-interest of the world’s counterbalancing land-power; i.e., U.S.A vs. R.F.) ...but it’s hard to go to a game and not pick one side to root for...