The People Giving Putin a Pass
22 min readFeb 25, 2022
Well, at least he waited till the Olympics were over.
As we watch the early stages of the largest military invasion on the European continent since World War II, a wanton act of unprovoked aggression by a brutal dictator abrogating the sovereignty of a democratic neighbor, one of the most striking things to this observer is that the rhetoric from America’s hard left and hard right is almost identical.