^FAIL, but I'm sure you get used to that.

"hey guys dont shoot the messenger who is just trying to offer an alternative viewpoint"
Yeh, that is basically what I am saying. You are bringing it back to Ukraine again, but the Pov of the foreign policy realists is quite valid, especially in light of the disastrous outcome we are now witnessing. You are certainly free to disagree- but you should also have the freedom to read and consider it. Just as the Pov of those who called out the bullshit being spruiked in the lead up to the disastrous Iraq invasion was proven right- but was widely disparaged at the time. Ditto those who called out the impending quagmire in Afghanistan, and so on. Dissidents are often proven right you know. Maybe that is why they are so resisted?

Such viewpoint and analysis should not be censored, filtered, or kept from the public because it is inconvenient to the powers that be, and does not fit in with their short term agenda. So I find the current trends, and apparent public complacency about it alarming. That is the topic of this thread.