Thank you! Unfortunately, some posters here did a knee-jerk reaction and missed the point of this thread entirely. How someone could have read the original post and interpreted it to be asking why we shouldn't become like Russia is beyond me.
“How someone could read the original post and interpreted it to be asking why we shouldn’t become like Russia is beyond me. “
It’s an attempt to avoid answering my point by distorting it and answering a straw-man argument instead.