Gee whizz, fellow, grow up. Don't blame the United States because you marched onto the Ukraine border with tanks, troops, and missiles, and then the whole world took notice. The world as a whole remember's what you did in Crimea. Same march, incursion, invasion, then annexing Crimea as part of Russia.
History started to repeat itself, and this time in Ukraine. Other nations remembered what happened to Crimea and began to send defense equipment to help Ukraine. Indeed, the Vatican has sent prayers for peace. How about Samoa? Even Alaska is keeping an eye on Russia's back door.
Putin has reservations about Ukraine going western. Putin was even ready to go to war to prevent Ukraine from going west.
But as God would say, "THAT'S TOO BAD."
So did the rest of the free world. The rest of the free world announced Ukraine would not be part of Putin's Easter basket.
Feeling the squeeze, Putin said, "I'm not invading Ukraine. Oh no! I'm just parking tanks at the border. It's all the fault of the US and that nervous Joe Biden."
On the other hand, Putin quietly laments the collapse of the old giant Soviet Union. Another too bad situation.
It's like wishing you were 6 feet tall instead of 5 feet 5 inches.
The entire world seems to be slowly moving west. People love things like Starbucks, blue jeans, McDonald's, the Internet, freedom, peace.
Instead of phony wars, how about a war tackling climate change?
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