โ...Georgia was followed by Crimea. Look at the pictures of Grozny or Aleppo. Compare them to Kharkiv & Mariupol. Why do they look so similar?
Because Putin sees every off-ramp provided to him by the world as an entrance on the road to his next target.
We must, after 2 decades, learn the lessons Putin has taken such pains to teach us...
Either we stop him this time or he will do this again.โ
https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1505388936096587784
โWe must, after 2 decades, learn the lessons Putin has taken such pains to teach us. There are two choices. Either we stop him this time or he will do this again. Either he pays a price for these crimes greater than any he has known before or we will be right back here again soon.โ
Exactly
And Georgia was preceded by two Chechen wars.
Thereโs also the non military takeover of Belarus.