Giving civilians automatic weapons, tweeting recipes to make Molotov cocktails, distributing bombs and grenades, allowing (in fact, encouraging) hackers to attack and bring down entire countries’ networks, condoning and applauding billionaire playboys using their toys to undermine and even replace infrastructure, letting the very important chief executive of the country go about the frontline in battle fatigues risking his life and limb, all look good in times of war.
But it will come back to bite you in the ass in times of peace.
Ditto crippling another country’s banking system, egging corporates and private enterprises to boycott and shut down their operations and supplies to entire sovereign nations, refusing fuel, food, and water to merchant vessels, closing up airspaces (the infamous ‘no-fly zones’ that NATO has made famous) for even passenger jets, and many other such acts of omission and commission that are seen as normal in wartime.
I guarantee you, NATO and Ukrainian leadership, and everyone cheering from the sidelines, this will haunt you.
