the rules based order you deride is what separates humans from animals ......what stops us going back to the 1700's and before where conquest was an accepted part of nationhood . Rules based order has produced nearly 80 years of complete peace in western Europe .....unprecedented in recorded history .....yet you seem to imagine it's a bad thing .....like you imagine there is no room for morality in world affairs .
russia still wish to behave like animals .....tryimng to take what they believe they are able to by force of arms .....in Ukraine , in Georgia and in Chechnya .. If putin were successful in Ukraine Moldova would be next .
russia took that bit of sea coast from Georgia ....and Crimea from Ukraine .....and putin is lusting after Odesa and was trying for it .....because he wants to dominate the Black Sea .......(he has already failed in that btw ).....he wants power and doesn't care who he tramples to take it .....NEITHER DO YOU !!
A NEUTRAL poster would understand these things ....would recognise the truths .
