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One wonders if it would have been better to have entered into negotiations on a security framework with Russia as they were insisting on back in December

Probably not. Putin would have used it to set up the conflict and make it all NATOs fault.

As it stands Putin is entirely on his own. Prices will rise, food supplies become scarce, people will starve and die. Just another day at the office for geopolitical politics.

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...