I will say this, I appreciate your civil tone, which has been consistent. While I don't have a lot of respect for what you're arguing, I do respect you, sir.

And though you may sound like your parroting pro-Russian talking points (which the troll farms love to disseminate), I acknowledge that you do appear to believe that a counter-narrative is worth exploring and that is not an unfair position to take.

I've decided to adopt a civil tone myself. Lord knows we can all blame the internet for removing civility from discourse, but that doesn't mean we need to let that drag us down into the muck.