Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Lex Fridman’s aspiration to reconcile Putin and Zelensky assumes that Putin is motivated by positive values, such as love of country. Putin’s invasion may be brutal, but it is just “love of country gone wrong”. In reality, Putin is largely driven by negative values, like power and destructiveness.