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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Kevin Michelizzi

Dear Kevin,

Everybody knows just a few bad apples can spoil the whole barrel. I think the same is true with people and nation-states.

Scott Ritter, bless his hardened heart, is well trained in the art of war and has lifetime of experience practicing it as well as dealing with its ugly consequences (e.g. Senate oversight committees). War is learned behavior. War is a terrible thing to be wrong about, maybe the worst of things to be wrong about. Compared to war, all 'other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.'

While we may all share relative degrees of responsibility ~ Where Are Those Good Americans ~ the poor, downtrodden people in your heartbreaking photo gallery above are surely the consequences of the war in Ukraine, not the cause.

Ukraine may be a relatively newly formed nation-state (on my early 1990s globe it's U.S.S.R. territory) as Scott points out, but it's lovely city architecture and picturesque rural communities appear to be hundreds of years old.

(note. in any case, I think Scott struggles with concept that the world is really just one big old country, and 'mankind its citizens.)

I knew 'they', the bad apples, were going to destroy this beautiful place on Feb. 23, 2022 when Nato's Jen Stoltenberg, U.S. Sec. of State Blinken, U.S. Defense Sec. Austin and President Biden all said exactly the same thing:

"If Putin's greatest fear is a strong Nato in Ukraine, that's exactly what he is going to get"

Putin launched the Russian SMO the next day.

*Snowden for President 2024 'From Russia With Love'

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