TURMOIL IN THE UKRAINE / RUSSIA AGGRESSION

[sally]

Kharkiv railway station. They are trying to get away. Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine.

Yes, they need to get out because the Russian military is destroying the Ukrainian infrastructure, much like Bush and Cheney did in Iraq -- and let's not forget that it was under their "leadership" that war reporters were embedded into military units, which is censorship.

It was entirely predictable that Putin would retaliate militarily if the West kept poking the hornet's nest, which it did -- also very predictable, given that neocons are involved, just as they were in Iraq. So it simply isn't true that Putin is entirely to blame for this, because the aggressive eastward expansion of NATO is blatantly hostile from a Russian perspective.

If we can't include the Russian perspective in passing judgement on this mess -- which has been long in the making -- we probably aren't fit to judge much of anything.

Right on.