> build defenses Um, the Russians are building defenses. Take close note of their captured territory - this is the buffer zone that they think they need, wheth

> build defenses Um, the Russians are building defenses. Take close note of their captured territory - this is the buffer zone that they think they need, whether you agree or not, to safeguard themselves from NATO forces they do not trust one bit. And, given NATO's war crimes over the last twenty years, that distrust is entirely warranted from the perspective of anyone capable of objectively looking at the map of world war and calamity, so far this century [0]... > no one is particularly afraid of invasion from other countries The Syrian people are not exactly throwing roses at the armed forces which occupy 1/3rd of their sovereign territory (the oil fields), which is clearly intended to deny them the resources they need to rebuild their state... Afghanistan didn't particularly like being invaded and occupied for twenty years.. Iraq is still resisting its invaders.. Yemen is fighting for its own territorial sovereignty against a known fascist totalitarian-authoritarian dictatorship which is being armed and supported militarily by .. you know who .. The world is not visible through one set of lenses. You have to wear them all to understand. I don't justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine - but I can certainly understand why the Russians think they can justify it, in light of the hate-filled rhetoric that has been leveled against them for decades, by .. you know who .. Would you tolerate it, as an American, if Russia put secret weapons-related bio-research facilities on your borders along Mexico, and if Mexico had structured its armed forces to be aligned with Russian military planners, preparing to "contain and control" the USA? I don't think so. Anyway, none of this changes the fact that these wars utterly suck, there is too much money being made in the slaughter of men on both sides, and we, the people, are powerless to do anything effective about the failing world diplomatic efforts while we continue to be willfully ruled by our own war criminals and overlook their very real, heinous crimes, just because "they are on 'our' side"... [0] - https://airwars.org/ https://airwars.org/