Another exhausting article obsessed with digging up history. It's a waste of time. It's very simple. Russia is choosing to annex territory with violent force.

Another exhausting article obsessed with digging up history. It's a waste of time. It's very simple. Russia is choosing to annex territory with violent force. This is a rejection of the very concept of diplomacy. As to its position on NATO: no country has a right to a neutral buffer zone with entities it perceives as its enemies. Russia is big enough, it can provision its own land for that purpose if it wishes. No country has a right to demand that its neighbors not have weapons or a standing military. If Russia was truly concerned about the fate of Russians in Ukraine at the hands of Nazis, the answer is simple, offer them asylum. That's it. That's all there is to it. The natural order of things. The details about how we got here don't impact these points. There are no historic debts that can weigh the scales to displace these points, because history is forever and we have to live with our today right now.