In his blog Philosopher's Beard, Thomas R. Wells makes the point that we err dangerously when we say "Russia did this" or "the US is...

It's comforting, in this terrible time, to complain that Vladimir Putin is a thug, or a maniac, or evil. And if it's not all his fault, ...

I fear that something he wrote back in 1995 is all the truer now than when it was written: “While the right has been busy taking the...