What the actual fuck? Literally.

In academia you are trained to not accept any claim without adequate evidence. Look at left wing claims vs. right wing ones and show me one that has better evidence on the right.

Yeah and Kierkegaard already solved this decades before him, in exactly the way you describe (although he didn’t personally think it was possible).

I wonder what the reactionary imperialist Vladimir Putin would do to Ukraine in the absence of NATO.