“Zelensky asks if West is Scared of Putin”. A taunt, A plea, a” you afraid of this bully?” bravada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The answer to that question lands on a sort of… Kind of, or maybe a shrugging “sure”. Delve further into the American approval of Zelensky and I do not know how the question of ” Russia usurped Ukraine. Do you care?” lands. We care enough, but not enough. The problem, why we “fear” Russia is that rock and a hard place — those darned nukes. So under Eisenhower, we jump away from Hungary. Now under Biden we scale away our participation short of what Zelensky desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Word has it that “Russia is scaling back” its ambitions. I have as little clue as anyone the story — though, in tried and true narrative fashion the Biden gaffe — “cannot remain in power” — throws the new excuse if Putin decides to steel his country folk to lob a bunch more bodies into his Greater Russia cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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