Unlike Saddam, we can't contain Putin. And if we try, the Chinese, Russians, and the Saudis (among others) will make common cause and put US in our place--and likely leave a smoking hole in the ground where D.C. now stands as well as leaving a few other smoking holes in large urban centers and strategic targets.
This was not a good idea, egging on Putin to invade Ukraine. Our military industrial complex really DID DO THAT. Now; the Ukrainian people are going to pay the consequences while Zelensky runs away laughing to his new mansion in Egypt -- that he bought with American taxpayer dollars pilfered from the war funds.
Unlike Saddam, we can't contain Putin. And if we try, the Chinese, Russians, and the Saudis (among others) will make common cause and put US in our place--and likely leave a smoking hole in the ground where D.C. now stands as well as leaving a few other smoking holes in large urban centers and strategic targets.
This was not a good idea, egging on Putin to invade Ukraine. Our military industrial complex really DID DO THAT. Now; the Ukrainian people are going to pay the consequences while Zelensky runs away laughing to his new mansion in Egypt -- that he bought with American taxpayer dollars pilfered from the war funds.
The balance of power has shifted.