I'm seeing a lot of twitter dialectic nonsense about condemning *both* US/NATO's antagonism & Russia's response & while initially refraining from the futility of commenting on this, I feel it needs to be said that this is a completely unserious approach (to put it politely). 🧵 Let’s put aside the fact that Russia tried exceedingly patient diplomacy for 8 years & since the 90s before that.