So you admit to not reading the article, but still proceed to critique what you assume it contains. And get up voted!

It is necessary for people to visualise these human impacts because, for example, concrete is the most destructive material on Earth

I think the problem is not down to one person - it seems like it is a group-think - problem within the security establishment, which seemed reasonable at first, but it is now very apparent that it was wrong.

I've now updated the post with the full article

He cant be feeling comfortable if his corruption is so publicly exposed. It. Is still worth it and necessary. His downfall may still happen.

I do understand those arguments, and the US has been a true ally to Ukraine - much more than the Europeans who generally didn't spend as much as they should have, and sometimes added additional layers of caution (Olaf Scholz in particular).

But if you take a "don't criticize us" attitude, you won't be open to any lessons that might be learned. The lesson I hope the West, Europe in particular, would learn is that timidity and weakness invites aggression from someone like Putin.

Peter Thiel is not lined up for an appointment as far as I know, but he is also there in the background - supporting Trump

• New Zealand by 5
• Australia by 2
• Argentina by 8
• France by 15
• Wales by 1
• South Africa by 12

Defeatism leads to losing

Would it be incorrect to think that Mark Twain already described how scammers feed off the US religious right in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). I am referring to "The King" and "the Duke".

Pretty hard for me to see a difference between a pacifist and a tankie

From the article:

Predictions of a Russian economic collapse—made almost uniformly by Western economists and politicians at the start of the war in Ukraine—have proven thumpingly wrong

The cost to Russia of Putin’s imperialism is not collapse, it is the huge loss of lives, and the future economic pain and job losses that will be needed to bring inflation back under control