Complaining about the price of the Steam Machine while posting an image made with the technology responsible for the 30% price markup is certainly a take.
This is nonsense. Putin did not invade Ukraine because “democracy works” anymore than he did because NATO crept to Russia’s borders despite some made up promises the West never made.
Putin invaded Ukraine for a very simple reason: he wants to control it and his post-2014 strategy failed. Putin is just a stupid imperialist who never accepted the verdict of the Cold War and the fact that Ukraine had become an actual independent country. He was always, always, trying to subjugate it. That’s it. All of it.
That’s why all these concessions that the idiots at the White House were offering were never going to be enough. It’s not about Donbas, or EU membership, or NATO. It’s not about some imaginary Nazis in Kyiv. He wants to subjugate Ukraine.
I don’t know why this is so difficult for so many Westerners to accept. Why do they always have to come up with some tortured logic and complicated narratives to explain a street thug and his fever dreams? Why are they intellectualizing a primitive dolt who’s now sacrificed two million lives at the altar of his own bruised ego?