One could get the feeling that Russia is just toying with Ukraine. Ukraine’s daring incursion into Russian territory is doing nothing more than annoying Putin and forcing him to unleash the next level of weaponry in the arsenal, not to mention drawing everyone closer to a wider conflagration.
It’ll be 3 years in February, and the world still stands at arm’s length, shipping arms but mostly watching, as a country with a gigantic arsenal beats up on its feisty but outgunned neighbor because a little man with a grudge feels he has a right to deny Ukrainian sovereignty.
Do Russians have anything at all to say about this, or are they just oppressed, conscripted sheep led to slaughter? It’s hard to believe their hearts are in this.
The human proclivity for domination sometimes appears terminal. How can so much power be concentrated in the hands of one person? Or is Putin a puppet, too, a prisoner of his own making?
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