And I agree with what you say.

Doesn't change the fact that the US establishment is responsible for the lack of an alternative "police" in Europe.

Which has benefitted said establishment and allowed the American people as whole to be in their current leading position.

I supported Trump when he insisted that Europe should pick up the bill. Alas, Americans voted for the other guy.

Unlike most of the US-based naive useful idiots and paid Putin shills, I have been to Russia and the Baltics in many occasions, for work and for tourism. I have friends there and I love the country and its people. I learnt Russian for three years, just because.

Long term I wish we can erase the absurd "Europe vs Russia" opposition, as if Russia weren't Europe.

For that though, Putin must be removed, the remnants of the Soviet regime must be removed (the old people still brainwashed, who largely support Putin now, will just die off soon) and the Russian people must be liberated.

Faux libertarians sitting on their asses in their cozy American homes thousands of miles away, screeching daily about how "they'll have to pry my guns from my cold dead hands" while critizing a people who are actually in arms defending their homes can bite me, honestly.