This is what happens when you have idiots in high places. Elections have consequences, stolon elections have catastrophic consequences.
Diametrically wrong. Ignore Russians, and they'll take everything they can get away with. History is what it is.
“No, it’s you who is not listening. Keep escalating, and Russian will then match the escalation with its own escalation.”
It’s kind of like the hypothetical conversation in 1941 Tokyo, after the Pearl Harbor bombing: “See they’re attacking us all over the Pacific Ocean, I told you they’d do that. That’s what Americans are, and this proves it. Glad we struck first.”
Well said.
Pro Ukrainian posters on FR brag about the Ukraine (i.e, NATO) blowing up Russian docks/ships and then pretend that Russia is being unreasonably aggressive, without provocation, when Russia responds by widening the buffer around its docks and ships.