[CRConrad]

> If you're implying that I would like Putin, who I consider basically a Chechen-cuddler.

Oh yeah, that's the big problem with him. Sheesh...

> I don't see the Ukraine war as per se very different from the Iraq war.

Yeah, I distinctly remember how Shrub denied that the Iraqi people exist, claimed they were all Americans anyway, and set out to annex Iraq to the USA. And who can forget the moving ceremony when he bestowed Statehood upon those four Iraqi provinces? Sheesh... Try as I might, I can't come up with any reason for why you would want to pretend to be this stupid, so...

> This means that I view Russia and the US as closer on the level of morality than most people, who I feel have a bit of short term view of the world.

Yeah no, that means it's you who are... If not morally blind, at least severely short-sighted.