Thank you for sharing your insights, which are spot on throughout. This war is indeed a sobering predicament, which could easily escalate into World War III, and the total collapse of human civilization worldwide.

Please ignore the anti-American morons. While I despise the Military-Industrial Complex as much as anyone, and their horrific wars of attrition in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Central America, there is still a night-and-day difference between a nation built on a constitutional order emulated by the world, with guarantees of intellectual freedom and distribution of power between executive, legislative, and judicial branches—and a brutal authoritarian tyranny where all public information is state propaganda and anyone who opposes Tsar Putin winds up in jail or dead. Anyone who can’t see the difference is delusional.