No one thought of this before Newton though. It's not exactly common sense if it is not common.

People much earlier than Newton argued that gravity was based on mass, it's just that Newton came up with the equations for it.

Correct, but earlier, you were telling me that modern people are smarter than people in the past because they have more 'data'. That was wrong, and you are correct here instead.

Modern people are also smarter, there has been a large increase in overall IQ over time in societies that industrialized and got richer.

things like reasoning are much more important.

Reasoning is learned. Anyone can learn to reason.

Correct. It's a shame that Putin lost his Midas touch and thought that was would be equally effective without a casus belli. Not sure if the element of surprise, such that it was, was worth it.

Putin had 14 additional years in a system of government he created to breed yes-men of questionable competence between 2008-2022. He had done such a good job consolidating power in Russia that he had grown complacent and overconfident. He was getting poor advice telling him what he wanted to hear from everyone except Sergey Naryshkin, who he humiliated in public shortly before invading.

I wish we would be independent instead of lackeys of the US.

Nations do not become "lackeys" of the US out of fear, respect, or ideology. They do so - using your definition - purely out of a selfish desire to freeload off of the American taxpayer so they can cut military spending and funnel it into social welfare programs in order to buy votes. They do this because they have no fear that the US will take advantage of the situation by imposing its will on them.