Subject: Re: RNC Platform: USA "Provoked" Russia...
And the suggestion that "they are not the aggressor" is completely absurd. Go tell that to the murdered Ukrainian civilians and kidnapped Ukrainian children.

This part is true. Aggressor was a poor choice of word on my part. I meant the initiators, country that made the first move.

As for Russian sympathies, I have none. They and China are expansionists too. But their enemies are now a lot closer, geographically, thanks to US.

Japan (post-WWII) used to have a pacifist constitution. But the tide is turning.