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with Russia pulling out/'repositioning' it's clear they have already lost. and with the war crimes uncovered so horrifically for everyone, there's no way that we go back to the previous detente

the atlantic had a good piece about how there is no natural liberal world order. realism prevails. Europe has finally awoken from its dreaming, but the fight against authoritarianism must remain an active one

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... ne/629363/

Brings us full circle, with the Tsar carving off chunks of the East as expected.

Chinese media is already downplaying Bucha... suggesting strongly that it's all staged.

I'm not betting on Chinese having learned anything from this at all...other than to maybe not be almost willfully incompetent.