Thank you for your comment. I appreciate your feedback for what it is: a mindlessly dogmatic reassertion of the West’s dominant narrative.

"The Russians are just massively incompetent."

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"Putin is using the classic Russian Playbook."

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"Putin is a genocidal maniac."

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And last but not least:

"Putin is an autocratic imperialist who wants to recreate the Russian Empire."

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In any case, I appreciate that you consider me and or my writing to pose enough of a threat to that narrative that you would be moved to reply and attempt to discredit my article with your subjective, faux self-righteous opprobrium.

Please hurry back to read and comment on my other works - I have some older articles praising Bernie Sanders that will probably provide great grist for your right wing mill.