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It’s a provoked war.

Most of them are. Every bloodthirsty tyrant who has ever amassed forces to attack a neighbor had provocation of some sort. Usually economic.

Yes, NATO kept poking and poking at Vlad Putin until he just couldn't take anymore and bombing the sh*t out of Ukraine was the only possible solution. Just as bombs must be put in place to use against Finland and Sweden.

No one is guiltless but only one is holding the smoking gun.

As always, I'm more concerned with the future than the past. It's not how we got ourselves into this that matters, but how we get out of it.

Or in the case of World Wars...if we get out of it.

I'm stocked up on weed, if the bombs start to fall tomorrow I'll stay high until the radiation sickness kills me.

Or as is more likely, life will continue pretty much as usual here in sunny Central Florida and I will read with shock more reports of Russian atrocities and the stoic and heroic defense of the Ukrainian homeland just as others have read reports in other countries about other wars as they went about their daily business.

There is some kernel of truth to every story, but trying to absorb it all and make sense of it is way above my pay grade. I'm just a simple carpenter.

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