Desperation? Really? You call our unwillingness to become a colony of Russia “desperation”? Back in Revolutionary times you’d be a Tory calling me “desperate”. I’d be the one getting the Brits off our soil, you’d be the one kissing the ring of the king. The Tories are *still* the most conservative party in England, and in the revoultion they were the few Americans who wanted nothing to do with getting rid of feudalism. It is no surprise that it is conservatives today who fight for corporate feudalism through transferring all wealth our society produces to the hands of the top 1%.
If I am “desperate” it is because I’m a patriot at a time when my country’s back is against a wall. If you are comfortable in the face of an act of war committed on us by Russia, that says more about your hatred for America than anything else.