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Russia has assaulted the consensus values of the Western World by invading a sovereign country and occupying parts of it for a whole weekUmmmm....Russia *has* invaded a sovereign country and has been occupying parts of it for a whole week.
Ummmm . . . . . I didn't say they didn't. Picking a clause out of a sentenece while ignoring the rest generally leads one to error. What I criticized was this narrative:
Russia has assaulted the consensus values of the Western World by invading a sovereign country and occupying parts of it for a whole week.
It's the depiction of Russia as having done something so anathema to our values by invading a neighboring country for one week -- while we have invaded and occupied for years, and continue to occupy, countries on the other side of the globe (while bombing others, feeding bombs to our allies to bomb others, and interfering in the internal affairs of still others) -- that's so distorting.
