“The response of the west clearly has to be to give Ukraine longer-range offensive missiles in addition to missile defense systems. It is crazy to allow Russia to do these things without consequence. A reasonable and proportionate response from Ukraine would be a sinking of more of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, or destroying Russian ports on the Black Sea. Those are military targets, unlike Russia’s targeting of civilians. If Russia’s power in the Black Sea is broken, then grain shipments can resume. The west could easily provide such weapons. Russia will not stop until they ARE stopped. No Russian ship should be permitted to operate in the Black Sea in the meantime. If the west is waiting for Russia to be ‘reasonable’, it will be a long wait” — David Allison

What puzzles me is that some people see the West as moving toward an authoritarian, totalitarian state. This I have to agree with. But why then do these same people idolize Putin and his friends Xi and Khomenei who are proven, totalitarian murderers? Are they that desperate for a solution to world problems? Do they think this solution will come from henchman Putin, mass murderer Xi, and religious fascist Khomenei? I have not heard yet a rational explanation for this bizarre, schizoid thought pattern. Over and out.