NP: I'll call your Kennan and raise you a Mearshiemer

[David Morris]

Thomas Eckhardt via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

"Vladimir Putin's decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine is


1.  *A monstrous act of aggression* that has plunged the world into a
> perilous
> situation.


2. *By any ***reasonable standard*** his move was an over-the-top response
> to ANY Ukrainian or NATO provocations.*


HOWEVER, It wasn’t really
*THAT* *UNREASONABLE*:
(*She MADE me HIT her*)

However, that conclusion is different from saying that there were no
> provocations, as far too many policymakers and pundits in the West are
> doing now.
>
> It has become especially fashionable in such circles to insist that NATO's
> expansion to Russia's border was in no way responsible for the current
> Ukraine crisis. Many dismiss all arguments to the contrary as "echoing
> Putin's talking points," "siding with Putin,” or circulating Russian
> propaganda and "disinformation." Leaving aside the ugly miasma of
> McCarthyism enveloping such allegations, the underlying argument
> is factually wrong


But hasn’t Putin said he did it because the *NAZIS FORCED HIM TO*?

So was it *NATO* or the *NAZIS*?
Oh!  I know!!!   I know!!!
The NAZIS we’re working for NATO!!!
(Or maybe NATO is run by NAZIS?)

David Morris