Boris cited one of the BBC commentators about us “living in pre-war time.” That was when we once again, for the hundredth time, talked about “Western countries trying to prevent a full-scale war.” And for the hundredth time, we talked about pre-WWII times and Czechoslovakia, and attempts “to prevent the full-scale war,” and how these attempts “to make things better” ended up making things worse.
And thinking about last week’s prisoner swap and what we now know about how it is related to Navalny’s murder – it’s basically the same thing. People involved in this process from the Western side were trying to do the best possible thing and stay up to their values, and that led to the murder and to Putin going unpunished.
And I don’t know why I am writing this for the hundredth time. I have enough evidence of businesses making extremely poor decisions in favor of “this very minute profit.” I have seen it for years, and I have very little hope that things like this will change. Not even in observable future, just – never.
Hettie's Reflections 