All NATO and Biden had to do to prevent this was come out and say that Ukraine wouldn't be invited to join NATO. That's all. But they wouldn't do that, because they had every intention of expanding their military alliance, which was established specifically around the principle of hostility to Russia, right up to Russia's border, after promising they wouldn't do so.

As disproportionate a response as this invasion might be, I simply refuse to accept the simplistic narrative that Russia is the sole aggressor here. This is the result of three decades of Western provocation, coupled with Biden's obvious weakness.

Biden and every other NATO leader kept up their aggressive posturing, but made it clear that they didn't have either the resources or the will to actually pursue military action, and even now Western populaces don't want war, which is why our leaders should have treated Russia like an equal partner and negotiated with them honestly. Instead, they treated them like a pet bear, assuming they were harmless because they seemed tame, poking and pissing on them until finally they snapped.

If the loss of Ukraine is the price we have to pay for avoiding nuclear war, at this point it's worth paying. And after we've paid it? we should hold every last one of our so-called leaders responsible for creating this situation in the first place, because it's not just Russia's fault that this is the choice we have to make.

All NATO and Biden had to do to prevent this was come out and say that Ukraine wouldn't be invited to join NATO. That's all. But they wouldn't do that, because they had every intention of expanding their military alliance, which was established specifically around the principle of hostility to Russia, right up to Russia's border, after promising they wouldn't do so.

As disproportionate a response as this invasion might be, I simply refuse to accept the simplistic narrative that Russia is the sole aggressor here. This is the result of three decades of Western provocation, coupled with Biden's obvious weakness.

Biden and every other NATO leader kept up their aggressive posturing, but made it clear that they didn't have either the resources or the will to actually pursue military action, and even now Western populaces don't want war, which is why pur leaders should have treated Russia like an equal partner and negotiated with them honestly. Instead, they treated them like a pet bear, assuming they were harmless because they seemed tame, poking and pissing on them until finally they snapped.

If the loss of Ukraine is the price we have to pay for avoiding nuclear war, at this point it's worth paying. And after we've paid it? we should hold every last one of our so-called leaders responsible for creating this situation in the first place, because it's not just Russia's fault that this is the choice we have to make.