McCain said that Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. And he’s absolutely right.
People keep repeating that such statements will antagonize the Russians. This betrays a complete ignorance if what’s happening in Russia.
The Russians are already antagonized to the extreme. Not by anything that Americans did or said but simply because they are in need of an enemy to hate. Nobody has invented a better way of reinforcing a weak national identity than by a collective hatred of a real or imaginary enemy.
People who refuse to see that the origins of the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine lie in Russia and Ukraine and not in the US are buying into Putin’s propaganda.
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