Russia: the blind leading the willfully blind
Some Russians openly support the war, some actively oppose it, but most just pretend it's not happening.
Posted one year ago today:
The period since the fall of the Berlin Wall has been tumultuous - 9/11, Great Recession, Iraq and Afghanistan, the Balkans, the election of Trump - but this feels like a chapter of relative peace and prosperity has closed, and we’re now back in an era when countries simply invaded and annexed their neighbors’ territory because fuck you, that’s why.
This was written with January 6 and the shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan fresh in mind, when it looked like the United States was on the back foot and tyrants like Putin were emboldened like they hadn’t been in decades.
Since then, Ukraine has shown the world that it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
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