So the Russians have invaded Ukraine. They will mop up Ukrainian defense forces in no time flat, and proceed to annex Ukraine. This is standard Russian behavior from olden times. They conquered Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and half of Poland through the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. They bit off a chunk of Finland. Earlier they had conquered Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

And here in the U.S., the world’s bastion against Communism, the home of “Better dead than red,” Tucker and Trump are cheering Putin on — I guess Trump regards Russia’s seizure of Ukraine as manifest destiny at work. 

We should not expect Trump and his anti-rational followers to be upset over the destruction of a democracy. They are doing their best to suppress democracy in the United States, so they can only praise someone they see “doing it right.”

So will Putin be satisfied with Ukraine. Not likely at all! Rhineland, Sudetenland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, and Norway did not satisfy Putin’s forebears.