This from at Racket News. I’ve been saying since well before the election that I was equally afraid of a Democrat win as a Republican win. This commitment to War on the Russian border is one of the reasons. The ratcheting-up of long-range strikes by US and NATO weapons into Russia can only be seen by the other side as US and NATO involvement. We’re hiding behind the fig-leaf of the claim that “yeah, they’re our missiles but a Ukrainian pressed the button”? Finally, I just have to say that it would be extremely ironic if the current vegetable-in-chief got us into World War III because he has some vaguely-remembered personal (or was it financial?) interest in Ukraine. Who is running the American government? Isn’t ANYONE curious??

ps. I just listened to the audio version of Taibbi’s post and discovered the missiles we’re allowing the Ukrainians to shoot into Russia are named an acronym, ATACMS, that is pronounced “attack-ems”. As if the previous irony wasn’t enough, we’re racing into this war full-speed with silly names on weapon systems as if this was just a cartoon or a Marvel movie.