Expendable Victims

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And there you go. Now that the USA is effectively reduced as a global state actor both on the battlefield and in the media stream, Putin now takes over as Top Dog Asshole: fuck those raghead Yemenis. They have no business trying to defend themselves, apparently.

Oh, I'm sure Putin's being hypocritical here: any increase in global oil prices is good for a fossil fuel powerhouse like Russia. He just has to say something sympathetic to appease Saudi Arabia, which is bigger and more important than poor little Yemen.

I admire Putin as a statesman mostly because he is one of the very few sane ones out there. He isn't an imperialist; he doesn't want wars of aggression; Russia is plenty big enough to satisfy itself and Vlad.

But Yemenis are, after all, dispensable in the scheme of things