The impossible suddenly becomes possible

I support most of the article except:

> happy to murder hundreds of thousands of neighbors

As much as his speeches remind of Hitler's, this is not on record yet by either side. Though if it happens, it would be too late.

> They do not, as some academics have long imagined, have eternal interests or permanent geopolitical orientations, fixed motivations or predictable goals.

Ukraine and NATO have reportedly been points of contention for years. (Edit: the utter surprise that interests voiced before are indeed actionable interests looks either hypocritical or ignorant; this of course in no way justifies the validity of those interests, to speak nothing of the methods in which they are asserted.)