Thanks for reading — and for your kind words! Yes, this pro-escalation shit is causing so much unnecessary loss of life with plenty more to come. I just don't understand how neither the Ukrainians, nor the people in other Western countries can't or won't see they're being used, not only by Zelensky who's obviously corrupt, but by the US-led Western megalomaniacs!

This obsession with Russia and Putin in the service of world hegemony is just plain ridiculous. I just wish, instead of swallowing all this propaganda spewed by the media and the MIC -- people would stop and pay attention to ALL the failed attempts at regime change this country's been involved in where they've destroyed entire countries and seriously injured and/or killed billions of innocent people at taxpayers expense. It just boggles the mind.