The Wind, Which Blew Through Our Cities.

PRESIDENT OBAMA IS incorrect. Russia is not behaving like a nineteenth century power in the twenty first century. His behavior is quite twenty first century. The Americans should know; it becomes difficult to recall all the nations the U.S. has aggressively invaded in the new century. Two, at last count, isn't it? The Russian government is behaving quite normally, for humans. Like Einstein said, as long as there are people, there will be war. The Crimes is simply too tempting to let go permanently. The resources, mineral and agricultural, of the Ukraine must surely be controlled from Moscow; after all, there are thousands of people in the eastern Ukraine who speak Russian, and enjoy Shostakovich. All that oil, all that wheat. Presumably, the Russian people at large, like the American people, are largely indifferent to the machinations of empire, or no empire. Some favor it, some oppose it, but most are indifferent. They understand that what they think is of no account. Half the American people share this awareness, choosing not to vote in pseudo elections in which the choices are chosen by their elite ruling masters. Long after Putin and Obama and the rest of us are gone, the wars of competition for mineral and agricultural resources will continue, and as Bertolt Brecht understood, there shall remain of our cities but the wind that blew through them.