Kirby: 'It's hard to look at' what Putin is doing

[BeyondGeography]

[MontanaMama]

1. Wow.

All I can offer is that I’m grateful that we have someone in this position with soul.

[Warpy]

2. Putin sounds like every single president who has lied us into war with one tragic difference

Ho Chi Minh wasn't a Communist until we made him one by refusing to help him oust the French. "Domino Theory," my wrinkly old ass, which was cute at the time the Pentagon came up with that one for Johnson and Nixon to mouth at us.

"Babies thrown out of incubators" was another one, slant drilling Iraqi oil had nothing to do with it.

Oh, and how can we possibly forget "weapons of mass destruction" while the poor Iraqis were going "WHAT???"

In some ways his garbage isn't any worse than ours.

In another, it sadly is, but he'll never realize it. It eerily echoes the pan Germanism of the early 1900s, something a young punk and failed artist named Adolph Hitler absorbed. With Putin, it's the pan Salvism of Oleksandr Dugin. It's why he thinks Ukraine is actually Russian, along with Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and half a dozen other countries. It's what makes him more dangerous than our liars have been.