Great piece. Things seem like they are moving fast and in an odd continuous way due to our exposure but we are still only talking days, not even a month. This whole thing may only be two sentences in a history book 50 years from now, or it could be what causes us to gloss over the end of the Cold War the same way we like to jump from WWI to WWII. That is my round about way of saying I think facts as they are Putin would still invade and I am not so sure he is looking for this, oft mentioned though unseen, "off ramp".
I wrote this two days ago. This morning I wake up to read that he's bombing hospitals. It just affirms my dread that he's looking to go the Chechnya route in Ukraine.
I'm starting to think that he actually *wants* to draw the West into a hot war. Daring the US and Europe to get involved, and escalating each time he sees reticence.
Great piece. Things seem like they are moving fast and in an odd continuous way due to our exposure but we are still only talking days, not even a month. This whole thing may only be two sentences in a history book 50 years from now, or it could be what causes us to gloss over the end of the Cold War the same way we like to jump from WWI to WWII. That is my round about way of saying I think facts as they are Putin would still invade and I am not so sure he is looking for this, oft mentioned though unseen, "off ramp".
I wrote this two days ago. This morning I wake up to read that he's bombing hospitals. It just affirms my dread that he's looking to go the Chechnya route in Ukraine.
I'm starting to think that he actually *wants* to draw the West into a hot war. Daring the US and Europe to get involved, and escalating each time he sees reticence.