Meanwhile, even that Nobel Peacenik Prize winner, Henry Kissinger, spoke up in dissent to this all out no negotiating nopnsense.

His knowledge of the history of that region, and that of US interventions in general, led him to suggest that methods other than America’s full-steam-ahead militaristic stampede should be considered. “Even such famed dissidents as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky,”—he wrote—“insisted that Ukraine was an integral part of Russian history and, indeed, of Russia.”

But of course Medium computer keyboard warriors know best.