It is interesting that we can knock off countries around the world for decades, but when another country attacks a neighbor because it threatened to join a military alliance that is based on conflict with the attacking country, somehow everyone is sanctimoniously clutching their pearls.

Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex 62 years ago, but it fell on deaf ears. Most people have the attention span of a gnat.

Congrats on bothering to stand up against the twits.

And yes, I suspect you are right. Putin will come out on top, because no one is going to start WW3 over Ukraine. They are like the little kid being told to go poke the bear, by the cool kids. Darwin award.