The Black Sea conudrum...

[Blandscape]

 

[Lily]

I grew up in a time when we knew the USSR was an enemy. I thought we knew shortly after the fall of the Soviets that the Russian state was a kleptocracy run by a dictator and his oligarchs.

Putin came up in the KGB and has always seen us an enemy. The Black Sea does allow Russia access to navigable seas. They need to be stopped.

I always thought we were allies with the Western European countries. Where we are now, bowing down to that megalomaniac in Russia, fighting our own friends and not bothering to address China is a place I don't understand.

It is confusing and dangerous.