[ Her righteousness is temporarily fractured by a ripple of horror. And she mutters to herself - ]
Blimey, no wonder you're so angry...
[ Then, louder, and more firmly than she's said anything so far: ]
I am not saying that any of this is remotely their fault. Or our fault. I am not blaming them, or us. The only blame belongs to those who decided that it would be remotely all right to kidnap noncombatants, civilians, people who have nothing to do with all of this horror, and treat them like objects. The blame belongs to the Russians.
That's why I've called bowing and scraping an ugly thing. Appeasement is ugly here purely because it oughtn't have to come from us. Because we'll be throwing away what we ought to have the right to do - fight for our people - simply because they hold brutal power over us. That's ugly. But it's also something I'm saying we've got to do - that we've got to do this ugly thing to see the world through this intact. We've got to do things we hate to make up for the nastiness and stupidity of all of the arseholes in the American government and in the Russian one.
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[ Her righteousness is temporarily fractured by a ripple of horror. And she mutters to herself - ]
Blimey, no wonder you're so angry...
[ Then, louder, and more firmly than she's said anything so far: ]
I am not saying that any of this is remotely their fault. Or our fault. I am not blaming them, or us. The only blame belongs to those who decided that it would be remotely all right to kidnap noncombatants, civilians, people who have nothing to do with all of this horror, and treat them like objects. The blame belongs to the Russians.
That's why I've called bowing and scraping an ugly thing. Appeasement is ugly here purely because it oughtn't have to come from us. Because we'll be throwing away what we ought to have the right to do - fight for our people - simply because they hold brutal power over us. That's ugly. But it's also something I'm saying we've got to do - that we've got to do this ugly thing to see the world through this intact. We've got to do things we hate to make up for the nastiness and stupidity of all of the arseholes in the American government and in the Russian one.
Excuse my language.