B402, You've told us many times before how special you are. How much of an independent thinker you are. And that the world would be so much better if more of us were more like you. You don't have to belabor that point as you tend to belabor other points. You might one day consider why so many here take offense about you. And no. It isn't simply because you have a different position on some things than we do. It's more about your personal approach to the board and others here.
Meanwhile hope you were reminded by that post and the chat which flowed from it, that to now very few leaders -- if any? -- in the
world have agreed with your position that Putin should have been confronted directly by NATO before now.
I think i agreed with you on one that possibly NATO and the US could have put it to Putin more directly when he started massing troops. Then again no one believed he would do what he's done. Even experts in Russia didn't. That goes then to concerns about his stability.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”