We should be beyond weary of people who spend their days devising ways to dominate, ways to shut down free expression and dissent, ways to ensure their own continued lofty status and comfort and influence.
For example, why does Russia need more land? It’s the largest contiguous land mass under one flag in the world. It covers 11 time zones, stretches from its border with Finland and Ukraine, among others, all the way to the Bering Strait, near Alaska. Why this infernal need for more territory? Is it simply about conquest and land acquisition, or some antiquated mission statement?
We can try to understand Putin’s motivations, but having that, should it make what he’s doing any more palatable or proper, or right? We can’t possibly fathom the suffering he and those around him have wrought, and all in the name of… what?!
All we can still manage is that we must fight fire with fire. That’s the best we can come up with. Always a layer of suspicion and mistrust, and wildly, shamefully misallocated funds spent on war, or the fear of it.
Meanwhile, people the world over go without, and never have the chance to move beyond struggle and mere existence, to really live.
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