First of all John, if you've read any of my posts on this Western, proxy war led by the U.S., you'd know I don't see Putin's move as criminal in ANY WAY given the lies the former Ukrainian president, Merkel and Hollande told him during the Minsk Agreements (to which they've all admitted by the way). Secondly, the West has left him NO CHOICE but to fight this to the end (to the last Ukrainian, as it were -- if you honestly look at it from a Western prospective, since none of OUR folk are dying) because all they care about is "Full Spectrum Dominance" which equals world hegemony in their pea-sized brains.

Putin got involved in this, NOT to take over Ukrainian territory, but 1) because of the full-scale MASSACRE of HUMAN BEINGS in the Russian-speaking Donbass who WANTED to be a part of Russia because of how Ukraine treated them leading up to, and during the Maidan in 2014 and voted to do so (please tell me WHY DON'T THEIR LIVES MATTER!!), and 2) because he has a RIGHT to protect his country's borders from Western incursion -- upon which the U.S. and the West initially agreed and then back-tracked by trying to lure Ukraine into NATO, effectively exposing his country to US??!! Hell, look at how this country's treating folks trying to enter at the Southern border! I live in Texas and it absolutely makes my soul shake how migrants are treated, but that's okay right?

The U.S. particularly, wants to "own Russia" and its resources. They picked on the wrong Mofo this time and quite frankly, as a human being -- I'm here for it.