re: #115 Targetpractice

Kinzinger’s argument basically boils down to “Putin isn’t crazy enough to go nuclear if we get involved in the war militarily.” The counter-argument is that a sane man wouldn’t have started this war in the first place.

I disagree. The problem is that Putin didn’t realize that his military was as ineffective as it appears to be; if it were actually competent, the war would be over by now. Our invasion of Iraq was ordered by sane leaders with bad judgement — this is a similar situation, except our military performed as expected. You can be evil, a sociopath, and sane at the same time. He was wrong in his evaluation of the situation, not mad.