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- 15 de Feb, 2015
It's obviously not surprising that Trump's talking about how clever Putin is recognizing the Donetsk republics. You knew he was going to go that way in the first place.
But, you know what, I've got to rant here - nobody has been covering themselves in glory with the whole Ukraine mess. We could have negotiated out of this a few weeks ago, but we convinced ourselves it was going to be just like Chamberlain at Munich, and so we decided Putin was going to invade Ukraine and did nothing to dissuade him - and no wonder it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. There was a chance Ukraine could have kept Donetsk until Monday, and now they've lost it and stand to lose more territory.
A hell of a lot of people in the government, both Democratic and Republican, think this is all a game. They know our army isn't going to intervene so they'll let Ukrainians get mowed down just so they can show Putin who's boss. I know people who'll be affected if a war breaks out - if you'll excuse the powerleveling. There's a European grocery near me, which imports a lot of stuff from Russia and Ukraine, and it'll probably suffer if there's a conflict. There are people I'm thinking of who are there on the other side of the world (one or two of whom are on this very forum) and I worry about them as well...
So you can see why I went into this long rant about why I'm not into the whole "bring back the Cold War" stuff that's going around. Even if Putin's going to start a war because he's angry the Risk board has Ukraine cover all of Russia or something. Some of the stuff that's been going around has been just disgusting. No empathy at all. No acknowledgement there are people who have something to lose and it's not just a dick-measuring contest.