I've already told you: Putin's motives in breaching international law and committing the war crime of invading a peaceful country simply don't interest me / have no bearing on how we should respond. Specifically: I think that it is a waste of time - and, more importantly, a DISTRACTION and DIVERSION from the truly IMPORTANT issues on the docket - to attempt to be a "Putin Whisperer" and divine his motives.
I've already cited the analogy of the "feral urban youths" breaking into my residence at 3 a.m. (You completely ignored it!) Their possible motives (mistaken address - they thought it was a drug-house with bags of drugs and stacks of cash lying about; mistaken assumption - they thought the house-owner would be unarmed; etc.) are namely utterly irrelevant to me with regards to how I should react.
And as for "not answering questions":
I have repeatedly requested that you clarify the much more fundamental question of: Did Putin invade (without even officially declaring war) a peaceful neighbor, or not?
And I don't want to hear about Sri Lanka or Rwanda or any other guerilla wars or internal ethnic conflicts or what have you in other parts of the world! They are irrelevant!
I, too, will decry the Serbian aggression against Bosnia in the 1990s, if that's what you want - but that is not the issue here! We are, rather, discussing the unprovoked military invasion by Russia of Ukraine - which has since morphed into an obvious land-grab - beginning on Feb. 24, 2022.
Where do you stand (and why do you persist in your "little dance" to avoid taking a stance)?
When you see a little old lady on the street being mugged, you don't wonder about the mugger's personal motives (mere greed, personal animosity, race-hatred, bloodlust, etc.). Rather, you first recognize that the mugger is the aggressor, and then proceed from there.
Regards,
Thank you for responding. Your answers explain a lot.
If you have no interests in the motive either real or imagined of your enemy, don’t know or care about historical perspectives in regards to this conflict/war/security operation/police action, but want everyone to join in and fight and condemn Russia, I think you’re misinformed about how the US uses it’s allies.
Where do I “stand”? I stand with the United States of America. I’m looking at the horizon and I see war coming. That’s where I stand.
I think you’re seeing in real time how I feel.
I think we should provide the Ukrainians all the logistics/weapons/training they can use without jeopardizing a single American soldier, sailor, airman or Marine.
I feel that we are seeing the first chapters of a war with Russia and possibly China.
The FACT that you have no interest in educating yourself about the nature of man, the nature and use of war, and the history of conflicts currently or in the past might be the reason you seem upset.
The reasons or causes of conflict between countries IS important. If you don’t like reading history you may have missed this from about the 5th century BC.
“the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”.