That I have lived through history experience you don't is not credential flashing.

"Balanced dialogue" with Russian genocidaires is a non-starter.

Asian views: Biden just got Japan and South Korea to coordinate defense policy. Ask how Biden got war crime comfort women reparations deniers and the former colony into the same room to shake hands. The answer: Xi's China. Better the distant bully than the nearby one.

Maidan: I've debunked the Victoria Nuland as sandwich distributing puppetmaster elsewhere: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/guide-to-russian-useful-idiocy-e3b6fc9612aa

Watch the Netflix documentary Winter on Fire to unlearn your neo-colonial bigotry that Ukrainians are agency-less pawns of an omniscient US. Then take the virtual tour of the kleptocrat Yanukovych's villa outside Kyiv.

That you take seriously the conspiracist RFK, who believes the COVID virus was designed not to infect Jews, says it all. I had COVID last month. I guess it's because I haven't been inside a synagogue for at least a decade.

As Ralph Nader gave us Bush 2.0, Cornel West may give us Trump 2.0. You can have purity or power, but not both. Fascists need win only once. To keep fascists out of power, those who believe all possibilities for change vanish if constitutions and the rule of law do must pitch a perfect game every time out. Cornel West and RFK are potential gopher balls.