And don't tell me I swallowed the party line. I started my series of screeds by detailing the argument Putin USED to have that the US & NATO "provoked this." There's some legitimacy to that POV, but it faded thousands of dead civilians ago. NATO is still a defensive organization, so its expansion is worrisome, but not a threat that warrants an elective war. Apples, organges, melons, bananas.