Toxic Putin is going for bust. The west must stop him before this contagion spreads

[Wingus Dingus]

16. I don't believe Putin is going anywhere else besides Ukraine, for a long while.

I think it's his last big hurrah, to take care of this bee in his bonnet. But he didn't want to do it like this. He's bogged down for a while, and his people--however cowed, however patient, or however cynical--will only accept their sons returned in body bags to a point. So I don't worry about what's next, in the PRACTICAL sense of future conquests.

That said, I do feel the author's urgency to intervene. The world has the means to stop this. This isn't an internal-strife problem, it's not a civil war or a coup, and it isn't muddied by complex credible grievances. It's literally Good vs. Evil. An evil power decides to crush an emerging democracy, where the elected leaders are kidnapped or threatened with assassination, their homes are razed, expectant mothers going through labor with bombs dropping around them, civilians shot, starved, and frozen, essential workers held hostage, livelihoods gone... At some point it's going to be too much. I don't know when we get there.