Ladies and Gentlemen: The "Regressive Left"

[DetlefK]

5. "Appeal to authority"?

Just because somebody posts a lot, that doesn't make it right. Trump is sure as hell tweeting a lot...

Oh pleeeeease. I decry the usage of a black&white point-of-view and you accuse me of seeing the world in black&white?

And if you want to know my opinion on Ukraine:
- I think that Ukraine was bound to enter such a political crisis eventually because the Country was already and always geographically split into a Europe-oriented, Russia-hating western part and a Russia-oriented, Russia-loving eastern part.
- Putin operates under the delusion that the Soviet Union still exists. His foreign policy is geared towards surrounding Russia geographically with vassal-states to prevent Russia from bordering onto a potentially hostile country. (E.g. the Donbass would like to become part of Russia, but Putin said no because then Russia would border on a hostile Ukraine.)
- Putin thinks that Russia still deserves the geopolitical power it had during the days of the Soviet Union and is irritated that the rest of the world doesn't show proper deference. He thinks that the "West's" respectlessness and carelessness are calculated attacks on Russia's plans to build a sphere of dominance.