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It is the West, not Russia, that has behaved recklessly in Ukraine

• Lewrockwell.com
 The first casualty of war is truth. And the first casualty of any skirmish on the world stage that involves Russia is critical thinking.
 
No sooner does the great bear of the East speak or act on an issue beyond its borders than Western observers, of both a right and left-wing persuasion, switch off the bits of their brains that do actual thinking in favour of indulging in thoughtless Moscow-mauling.

The right does it because it desperately misses the Cold War, when the world was neatly split between good guys and really, really bad guys, and it hopes that by posturing against Putin it might resuscitate, however fleetingly, that old West-flattering, heart-swelling global divide.


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