Sinonatrix

I have to imagine direct intervention would've happened already if it was going to. Why let the Ukrainians get shoved into a meat grinder first? If you're America: it's good business and sells more guns. If you're actually reliant on the buffer zone then it's really not a game, as you say.

If you want a picture, imagine a spicy op-ed stamping on a trotskyist newspaper forever

That's because they've been brainwashed by a consistently rising standard of living, they don't have free press like us to tell them how they should really feel about things