Your belief that I have any admiration for your typing is the real naivety. You only proved my point with your response.

I have zero faith in the American national security state. That IS the reality. We fuck up every country we allegedly are trying to "help."

Prof. Snyder is a wonderful speaker giving his opinion. He is not omniscient nor objective. No one is.

I'm sure that Russians and Ukrainians have both committed war crimes.

I'm also sure that had the US stopped pushing east with NATO after the fall of the USSR, there would have been no civil war in Ukraine, and no Russian invasion 8 years later.