ABC Evening News: Russia is stalled on all fronts !

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32. A cornered, wounded animal is the most vicious

We must hope that Putin’s own people take him out before he is allowed to order a nuclear strike. There is certainly enough historical precedent for such a move, but there a is sadly ample time for Putin to oder much more misery on the Ukrainian civilian population before he’s done.

I wonder just how he thinks he can negotiate a “neutral” Ukraine after what he did to them? For that matter, I wonder how much longer he will be tolerated as “Fearless Leader” within Russia after leading his country into this disastrous, unnecessary blunder?

We should be careful, by the way, about feeling a blanket hate toward all Russians. That would be like feeling a blanket hate toward all Americans during the Vietnam war or the Iraq invasion, or Trump’s “presidency.” There was hardly universal approval from all Americans for any if them, was there? There are a huge number of Russians bitterly opposed to Putin’s attack and invasion. One of them is my son in law. He hasn’t actually lived in Russia since he was 9 (grew up in Israel after that, even served in the Israeli military before coming to the USA). He remains a Russian, though not one that any Putin apologist should start an argument with unless their black belt has two black patches on it instead of one.