Not going to go through the details, but here, in this thread, there is some real minutes of hate shit going on. Not only the usual Putin=Hitler crap (no, not even close), but the "their troll farms are the reason for our disinformation" [1] and blaming just about everything else on the Russians. 

Pretty fucking sad. But YT actually recommended a good video and here it is:

Seems like a solid breakdown of what happened. 

Again, imagine China decides to put missiles or troops or enter in a military alliance in Mexico and claims they are for someone else. JFC we'd be going ballistic. 

And this professor is no leftie or even all that liberal, tbf. You could probably argue whether Russia is right (morally, especially) to want to just break the country, but we did start it here. 

And you know my view: that CC and nukes are of the utmost importance, so we need to make sure tensions are down and actually work together (in that sense I disagree with the professor, in that I don't think 19th century thinking is needed... maybe when we're meddling elsewhere it is, but not with the real problems we face). 

Speaking of geopolitics, I was looking up what Mearsheimer thinks about the pandemic and I came across this. Some good thoughts throughout that on covid, the nation state and the international order after that (for example how South Africa was punished for being rational and telling people about Omicron). 

It really does seem like, here and in other places, even our ostensible enemies, the emotion of power  rule the day (nevermind the different outcomes) and that power is usually shored up by stupidity of looking powerful (travel bans, not doing as Taiwan did, which is with a quarantine for all who enter etc). And yes, Biden gets a dumb stamp for what he did there, as he will for raising tensions with China and Russia and starving Afghanistan (and yeah, better than Trump and all, but damn not by much). 

Very few adults left, folks, just those who are into power theater (but with deadly consequences)

[1] All I see are our oligarchs, especially the right wing ones, doing this and our right wingers doing what they've always done. I'm sure Russian troll farms are a thing but it's minor compared to reality, of who lives with us, tbf (nvm how many other nations have troll farms, disinformation, etc etc).