[bill1952]

And you believe that Putin hasn't calculated all of those factors already?
That he's a silly fool dancing on the world stage?
That puts you in the ranks of those standing on the sidelines and bitching.

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
-Thucydides,

[Mi-kha-el]

That puts me in the ranks of those who don’t want two brotherly Slavic nations to shed each others’ blood in a fratricidal war for madmen’s ambitions. The Russian people don’t want that war any more than the Ukeanians. I guess they are all just bitching.