I give Putin no absolution here.

I hate what he's done.

I was let down a bit, I didn't think he was capable of this.

BUT ......

IF -- even after us, the USA was "defeated" and in tatters, what if China and Russia provided security guarantees for ----Mexico? Canada? What if equipment and troops were there? Would we have taken to that happily?

What if Soviets put Missiles in Cuba - oh wait - that happened and we didn't want that.

So as the Woke War Machine and their NeoCon soulmates kept shouting "We won the Cold War" while in the next breath making NATO bigger.....what was Putin supposed to do.

So far, the Woke Left egged all this on "We hate Putin!" and Crimea and now other parts of Ukraine are suffering. In response, Club 401K says 'We Stand with Ukraine!" "We'l give you most of the weapons, we'll enjoy the profits, but we won't give you all you requested because we want a nice long, profitable war, and we are using Ukraine to wear down Putin". That's about it.