[pessimizer]

> To say that the US is in any way responsible for Ukraine is to deny ukraine agency. They are caught between a lion and a bear.

But somehow you're excusing the lion.

[spaced-out]

Because, in this instance, the lion is not the one that launched an invasion. Particularly egregious, launching a pre-emptive war based on a flimsy premise of what Ukraine might do in the future.