You ought to know better than to call me “ruthless”.
“Had they simply gone in without a pause, the interventionists would have doubled down and called it evidence of Putin’s ruthlessness”
The attack and murder of Ukraine citizens proves Putin’s “ruthlessness”.
Your comment is absurd.
Has he targeted civilians? (I don't know the answer; I'm simply posing the question.)
Presumably, you say this with a straight face.
The civilian casualty count from the US interventions in the Middle East run into the hundreds of thousands; our CIA tells us so. That you or any other American should profess outrage at Putin's military action in a country next door to his is laughable on its face.
You ought to know better than to call me “ruthless”.