I still think it’s a very powerful image, and portrays well how Ukraine must have felt after the meeting. One of the best journalistic images I have seen for a long while, precisely because the composition paints a story that is emotionally true, but in reality was just a short, inconsequential moment.

This image would have little value if Ukraine left the event happy with the results, feeling confident in their allies and NATO. Then it would be emotionally untrue as well.

There are many complex cultural and economical aspects which none of amount for any reason for any sane person. But in that way the complexity is inherently linked to Kremlins unique brainworms and natural stupidity.

It would have been similarly insanely stupid to attack Finland, or Japan, or North Korea. So to draw distinctions to those, trying to understand the biology of Russian brainworms is relevant to the conflict. But no explanation will change the fact Russian decisions are made based on poverty and stupidity.