What “it” is now, then, is not the threat of war, and not the imaginary diplomatic conundrum of how to address Russia’s “legitimate security concerns” while at the same time “keeping the door open” to Ukraine’s accession to NATO. What it is now is the full-scale invasion of a democratic European country by a gangland oligarchy that has been allowed to strangle Russian democracy and murder and jail opposition leaders, and is now securely bivouacked in the Kremlin.
What “it” is now is a war in Europe waged by a decrepit nuclear-armed state with veto power on the United Nations Security Council. What is happening now is the bloody imperialist conquest of a European democracy, a country of more than 40 million people, a country immensely rich in culture and resources, a country larger than France.
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