“But what could the international community do to stop Putin from invading countries at will?” people ask. “Surely, there isn’t anything that can be done.”

Yes, folks, there is a lot that can be done. Putin and his gang of bandits have been robbing the people of Russia for decades. The US and other Western nations could prevent these criminals from spending that money in style. Here is what could be done:

1. No US and EU entrance visas should be granted to anybody working for the government of the Russian Federation or their family members.

2. The Russian bandits who are now in the US and EU and their family members should be immediately deported back to Russia.

3. The bank accounts the bandits keep in the US and EU banks should be arrested.

4. No private financial operations should be allowed to be conducted by the members of the  Russian government outside of the Russian Federation.

5. End trade agreements with Russia.

You can’t hurt Putin with military means. But you can hurt him plenty through finance. Isn’t that where the US is supposed to be so good? Finance?

Something as a simple deportation of a couple hundred of the kids of the bandits and the confiscation of their US and EU palaces and castles will be a huge argument in any discussion with Putin.

Putin went nuts over the Magnitsky Act. Which means this method works.

After allowing Putin to lecture him and guide his actions on Syria, Obama will not look very impressive if he allows Putin to wage war against sovereign nations as part of scheduled post-Olympic entertainment.

People are bound to ask: what happened to the US’s international prestige and power since 1994, when the Budapest accords were signed? If only 20 years ago the US felt justified in guaranteeing the sovereignty of Ukraine in return for the country relinquishing its nuclear arsenal, where did the country’s power go since then?

Russia has no national identity other than the need to invade somebody every two minutes.

Russians don’t produce anything, don’t control their own lives, and are boozing themselves to death in a country that has no culture, art, literature, or education any longer.

The only way they have to feel alive every once in a while is by slaughtering, raping and torturing people en masse. When doing it to each other doesn’t titillate any longer, they entertain themselves by doing it to others.

Of course, there are Russians who are not like this, and all three of them are denouncing Russia’s imperialism, for all the good that will do.

The most tragic part is that there is absolutely nothing Ukraine could have done to avoid this. Russian invasions are not predicated on what their victims say or do. The invasion of Ukraine was scheduled to take place after the closing ceremony of the Olympics, and it did.

The concept of ethnic Russians is, of course, meaningless, so in this post and elsewhere, when I say “Russians”, I refer to the citizens of the vile, stinking, and disgusting Russian Federation. I’ve been sitting here, trying to figure out what Ill to wish upon them until I realized that they have been punished already. For what can be worse than living in what is, objectively and historically, the most evil country in the world?

A colleague distributed an article he wants us to discuss. The gist of the article is that the author suggests that any kind of scholarly research that might hurt her feelings should be forcibly stopped.

The best part of this is that the author claims to be a feminist. The second best part is that people who write this kind of crap never consider the possibility that research in the areas they approve of (such as, say, global warming, evolution, Marxist theory, gender studies, etc.) might also just happen to be found offensive by somebody.

Of course, I’m not going to participate in the discussion because it hurts my feelings.

P.S. Now do you understand why I was miserable teaching in the Ivies?