Among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions across the world from 1945 to 2001, 201 were initiated by the #US, accounting for 81% of the total number. pic.twitter.com/Kjn81VIVXP
— Chinese Embassy in Russia 中国驻俄罗斯大使馆 (@ChineseEmbinRus) February 25, 2022
The applicable wisdom here: "Why do you pick the mote from your neighbors eye and ignore the beam in your own?"
...and, as we know, NATO stands for "Needs America To Operate"
Remember Kosovo! (The U.S. "invades" a breakaway Serbian/Yugoslavian area with its military). Russians are doing the same thing.
We give you U.S. Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville (boldface mine):
Tuberville discussed the escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine. He claims that a large part of Vladimir Putin’s desire for further annexation of Ukrainian land is due to the amount of farmland in Ukraine.
“He can’t feed his people,” Tuberville said. “It’s a communist country, so he can’t feed his people, so they need more farmland.”
If Alabama voters are this stupid, maybe, like happens in D.C., Congress should have to approve their budgets too.
Aside: Admittedly, the Substack Bois and the Anti-Antis have said stupid shit, but I think this takes the prize
More from Professor Mearscheimer (the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science):
The Bhagavad Gita, which is surely the basic text on the practice of detachment, is wonderfully explicit on this point. Krishna tells Arjuna that acting with detachment means doing the right thing for its own sake, because it needs to be done, without worrying about success or failure. (T.S. Eliot paraphrased Krishna’s advice when he wrote, “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”)
from here.
