Thomas Friedman is so stupid that he thinks that Putin “blinked” on the Ukraine. When you send SFB/KGB agents and plain-clothed Spetznatz troops into a neighboring country to destabilize it and set up a fake secessionist movement, it is called “war”.
Putin didn’t “blink”. He stuck his fingers in Ukraine’s eyes and then kicked it in the balls.
To Friedman, this is progress towards peace. To Hitler, it was the first steps to WW2. Some of us remember history. It is ashame that Tom Friedman doesn’t.
Agreed.