Plausibly Plausible
I thought it was obvious in 2018 that we were in a state of war with Russia. Undeclared, unofficial yet undeniable. But we – like the rest of Europe – did very little about it. We failed even to really acknowledge it. For as long as tanks weren’t crossing borders, fingers in ears and ‘la la la la’ seemed to be official policy. The truth of the matter, I suspect, is that these were governments scared of inflicting upon their electorates the hardships required to confront this reality. Alas, Putin has no such fear. Here we are in 2025 with nearly a million Russians maimed or dead, their economy shattered and isolated, hundreds of thousands of their brightest have fled, and yet Vlad will happily continue to inflict untold further suffering and sacrifice on the people he supposedly represents, all in the name of his legacy. Even as tanks did start crossing borders when Russia invaded Ukraine, most of Europe did the bare minimum. And now there is surprise and alarm that the USA...