[throckmortra]

I don't like these kinds of comments because the intent behind them always seems to be some sort of justification for the deaths of Ukrainians and annexation. The spirit of my comment, that I hope is captured by the reader, is that NATO/USA could have avoided war and loss of lives by being more careful in the past.

But we have the present and must deal with the immediate consequences with our best foot forward. The Ukrainian people are blameless and deserve our help - more so because we are partly to blame for not exhausting every option of diplomacy available to us. Please don't try to throw them under the bus.

Let's confront this tragedy while acknowledging context so that we don't make the same mistakes again