Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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shavenferret said:

SecondWar said:

There's a Guardian columnist called Simon Jenkins who epitomises this sentiment.

It's an odd statement though.  It's just like when we were in grade school and the big kid picks on the little kid.  But there's a plot twist to the usual story, and the small kid has some moves and opens up a can of whupass on the bully.  

Usually nobody has any sympathy for the bully.  

But why is there sympathy for Russia?  I mean, everybody hates them right now?  

It's actually the opposite, at least in the schools I went to. The bully gets away with being a bully. When the small kid decides to get some payback in, the same school administrators who looked the other way, freak out, and the victim is the one who gets punished.

So this checks out.