re: #343 No Malarkey!

Big words, but until Russian troops start engaging with Ukrainian forces, they are still just words. Fingers crossed Putin doesn’t cross that Rubicon.

He’s gonna do it. Putin straight-up said that Ukraine doesn’t deserve to exist. Ukraine, to his thinking, is an aberration, a historical mistake.

And he intends to correct that mistake.

People tend to forget this, but the real horror of Hitler was that he genuinely believed what he was saying. It wasn’t all just bombastic bullshit to tickle the fancy of his fanatical followers.

I think we may be making the same miscalculation with Putin.