re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The quality of leaders in the West is really low. You're talking about people who aren't that smart, aren't that well educated, and on a fundamental level usually aren't serious people. On the other hand, they're almost always cowards though, and so they really avoid taking risks.

I do think we should be concerned about the possibility of a really dumb mistake. On the other hand, France did apparently invite Russia to the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landing, and they wouldn't have done that a year ago. Relations were too poor.