Wishful thinking

re:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/us/politics/senate-passes-ukraine-aid.html

(throwing $40 billion of gasoline on a raging fire)

Could you even imagine a sophisticated, assuaging geopolitical response on the part of the American power elites . . . rather than a dumb, inflammatory one?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/20/westphalian-logic-and-geopolitical-prudence-in-the-nuclear-age/