Yes, Putin can be blamed for the Ukraine War. However, the West is not without fault.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky enjoyed a reception He compared it to the life of a Roman conqueror during his short but intense visit to Washington. He pitched for more aid With a carefully designed and crafted speech That touched many American emotions. Congress responded by approving another $45 billion in aid—more than most NATO countries Spend in one year on their militaries or, in certain cases, in two years. decade.

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The Wall Street Journal has never covered any war it didn’t support. lauded Capitol Hill’s response, arguing: “The U.S. would be far worse off today if Putin had conquered Ukraine.” That’s true, but incomplete. It would have been better if the U.S. had not created the conditions for the horrible war raging between Russia and Ukraine. And it would be so much better if the U.S. and Russia don’t end up lobbing nuclear weapons at each other before the current conflict ends.

The best place to start is the “what ifs?”

If successive administrations kept their promises, the U.S. would be in much better shape today. Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin NATO wouldn’t expand eastward forever. Although much obviously went into Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine, there is no evidence that he is a Hitler wannabe bent on world conquest, or even on reassembling the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler hit the zenith of his conquests within a decade; Putin’s territorial acquisitions after two decades in power were Crimea and influence over a handful of statelets: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and separatist states in the Donbas. But he is not a friend to liberty and democracy. compare Putin’s conciliatory 2001 speech to Germany’s Bundestag with his accusatory tone at the Munich Security Dialogue in

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