So many speculative fiction stories portray a person who goes into the past to stop dictators before they got out of control to cause huge amounts of misery and destruction. .Well, duh, here we are with a prime example of one such tyrant, at a locus in time that with other bad situations could send us into another world conflagration. .And once again, those with the potential to stop him basically put wet sacks over their heads and moan. I suspect some version of the Olympian gods watch with interest, as in The Iliad.
Putin is a nasty dude, but I’d say our reaction, being in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wanting to bomb Syria and Iran, puts the U.S. reaction of the U.S. as “hysterical” rather than “historical” precedent. Kiev overthrew a democratically elected government (granted he was a creep, but was elected), and there are a lot more ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine than there are English speakers or “ethnic Americans” in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
emptc12 over 9 years ago
So many speculative fiction stories portray a person who goes into the past to stop dictators before they got out of control to cause huge amounts of misery and destruction. .Well, duh, here we are with a prime example of one such tyrant, at a locus in time that with other bad situations could send us into another world conflagration. .And once again, those with the potential to stop him basically put wet sacks over their heads and moan. I suspect some version of the Olympian gods watch with interest, as in The Iliad.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Putin is a nasty dude, but I’d say our reaction, being in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wanting to bomb Syria and Iran, puts the U.S. reaction of the U.S. as “hysterical” rather than “historical” precedent. Kiev overthrew a democratically elected government (granted he was a creep, but was elected), and there are a lot more ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine than there are English speakers or “ethnic Americans” in either Iraq or Afghanistan.