don't buddy me, pal

. Reactionary doesn't mean you react to something. Not my intention to insult, but it's a basic political term with a specific meaning.
My tax dollars didn't go to the Russian ministry of the interior who funded and backed the Russian NeoNazi groups for the past decade. My tax dollars didn't lead to the CIA training Russians in the region. The billions in lethal aid. My tax dollars and potential votes feed into this system, not Russia's.
The western oligarchs who saw the energy reserves in Ukraine and took a renewed interest in getting their guys into position of power are more of my concern than the ones Putin tries to coerce or work with. Putin is an autocratic kleptocrat who apparently has a circle of like 5 people, the entire world is telling us everything about him. He fucked Russia no doubt with this blunder, the entire world knows it, next to no one is talking about how weaponizing SWIFT will lead to China gaining influence in the coming decades. Certain things are reported in certain ways, my dog in this fight is the Ukrainian people. That's why I will level criticism at dangling NATO in front of Ukraine with absolutely no intention of letting them in - where is this being talked about? It was an absolutely disgusting move. Having them do the west's dirty work of weakening Russia. A little balance is not a bad thing, sherbro