Lately, I’ve been getting into conversations with ex-military guys (i.e. guys in my generation who fought the old Cold War and should by all lights know fucking better), who keep spouting things like:

“This invasion is all NATO’s fault! After all, what choice did they give Putin? The feckless democratic administrations just bungled relations with Russia, expanding too fast and making the Russians feel threatened, and .,.. “

After that, it’s all WHARRGARBLE for about 15 minutes of Tucker Carlson communist propaganda filtered through a white supremacist self-pity septic tank of grievance.