In case you are interested, here is the link to a Yahoo article reprinted from the NY Times by Roger Cohen:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/making-vladimir-putin-144553109.html
Yahoo has spent the last two Covid *Biden years censoring political comments. Being distrustful of the Oligarchs running our Media and Tech – why would they choose this article to allow comments? Not sure how really accurate the article is but I agree it is well written. Is it just propaganda or just another NY Times hit piece decorated with words some us had to look up or to figure out to find out what was being said. Homo Sovieticus? revanchist warmonger? Vengeful warmonger for those who didn’t go to Yale or Haavad. The simple answer is that Putin viewed the decadent West and the likes of H Rotten Clinton as mortal threats to mother Russia. The way the color revolution has taken down so many governments – and indeed took down the last American President probably made Putin justifiably nervous, and in particular the brutal way she took great pride in taking down Khadafy. Never is there any mention of the fact that now that oil is well over $100 a barrel, the West and in particular this *POTUS has given Putin the financing for his vision. None of these great geniuses ever ask why Putin decided to act now. Simple, he could afford to. I do not see any political leaders as heroes here on either side. As usual, soldiers are cannon fodder and innocent civilians displaced by power mad leaders on BOTH Sides are truly the victims here!
Cohen theoretically retired in 2020 when he no longer was needed to write hit pieces on enemy #1 of the illiberal left – Donald J. Trump. Now he’s back because the illiberal left has found an even better target – one who actually may indeed be truly despicable, whereas compared to the shit show now going on in America and with this war in Ukraine, the rise of the Communist Chinese and actually moving toward more Green- Red Deal Madness – a nuke deal with Iran that will guarantee more world insanity and chaos, in hindsight, Trump’s peaceful productive 4 years where America was energy independent, commodity prices stable and affordable and bad guys were held in check doesn’t look so bad. I guess our latest version of Walter Duranty may be this British Fob – rather than Stalin apologist – we seem to have a one world Chinese apologist now using Putin as the punching dummy. Duranty was funded by Stalin and motivated by literary awards. My guess is that this puke, like most of our Congress, is getting funded by the CCP. But maybe the Pooh Litzer they’ve promised him is enough motivation.