re: #146 HappyWarrior

And Graham has no excuse for doing so. Ukraine has been a sovereign nation Lindsay’s entire political career.

Which factor is the fundamental problem: there is a Major (former Super-) Power who has never fully accepted that sovereignty, and has been doing whatever it can to try to return Ukraine to its “proper” relationship to Russia, i.e. satellite state if not outright “province”. And has (IMO) been constrained from entirely taking it over by military force only by the (tenuous) risk of negative reactions from the rest of the world. Which risks Putin has tried diligently to minimize via his puppet lackey stooge good pal in the White House….