Here We Go

Poland said Wednesday that multiple Russian drones entered its territory over the course of several hours and were shot down with help from NATO allies, describing the incursion as an “act of aggression” carried out during a wave of Russian strikes on Ukraine.
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“Russia’s war is escalating, not ending,” European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. “Last night in Poland we saw the most serious European airspace violation by Russia since the war began, and indications suggest it was intentional, not accidental.”

war with Russia This is what aggressors and domestic abusers do. They ratchet things up over time, so there is no bright line, unless the Russians send troops into Poland.

We may be inching into war and we're saddled with a Russian tool sitting in the White House. It's as though the candidate of the German-American Bund won the election in 1940.

Aggression gets deterred with strength, not with mealy-mouthed obsequiousness. "Oh, he's a good guy." "I fell down the stairs." "He didn't mean to hit me." "I provoked him." All the same shit-ass rationales that cops, lawyers and judges see play out in domestic abuse cases are at play here. And you see them in the rationales from the Right defending Putin.

Because the West isn't standing up to the Russians in a meaningful way, because many keep dealing with them, the Russians are going to keep pushing until a general war begins.

Strap in. This business is getting out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.