Just like in Mars Attacks!, where the Martians walked around saying they came in peace while simultaneously disintegrating everyone and everything in sight, Russia said it was important to respect Ukrainian sovereignty and pledged not to become involved militarily while concurrently invading Crimea with initially unidentified Russian troops. This was obviously planned well in advance, because how else did this Russian military detachment have uniforms, helicopters, tanks, troop transports, planes, etc., all without any identifying marks on them whatsoever? It takes time to create an absolutely anonymous, incognito army. But it didn’t take long before it became crystal clear that Russia is using force here.
I wonder if playing Slim Whitman will defeat the Russian army? (I doubt it. But it’s probably the most aggressive tactic we’re likely to see employed to try to counter them.)
I cannot believe how dunderheaded our news, media and government people are here. Wolf Blitzer, Fareed Zakaria, Christina Amanpour, et. al., are all shocked and surprised and bewildered that Russia has invaded Ukraine. And truly, only everyone could clearly see this coming from miles away. But for some reason, our experts can’t understand how the world works all of a sudden. (Could they be blinded by flawed ideology, where they are so used to propagating a narrative that they started to believe their own flawed logic and hype, and they got caught flat-footed? It wouldn’t be the first time such a thing had happened.)
