I'll answer what I want, thanks very little.

Who could have forseen it? George F. Kennan, William Burns, John Mearsheimer, Stephen F. Cohen (RIP), the Rand Corporation writing for the Pentagon in 2018. Should I go on?

"You mean to tell me that under the auspices of the Soviet Union, Russia was a meanie only to the Poles and Baltic States but treated the rest of Eastern Europe like its Russia's newborn babes?"

Nice strawman. I said "Europe" not Eastern Europe. You quoted me and then misrepresented what I wrote. Lame.

Western and Central Europe had been getting along fine with Russia for decades. Eastern Europe pretty well.

I live in Austria for nearly 30 years. I work in Europe, including Eastern Europe, for 33 and 18 years, respectively.

Nobody in Continental Europe wanted the war to start, and doesn't want it to continue. France has been trying to broker peace since the start. Germany wanted to find a way back to the way it was.

The US and UK killed peace talks last April. The US and UK blew up Nordstream II when it looked like Germany was really geting cold feet - there were street protests in northern Germany to reopen NS II in the weeks prior to the US/UK sabotage of the pipelines.

George Bush invited Ukraine to join NATO in 2008. That is what prompted William Burns (Russian ambassador) to write cables (leaked by Wikileaks) that predicted EXACTLY the scenario that playe out after the US backed coup in 2014.

Zelensky talked openly last year about Biden saying to him that publically the US would continue to push for Ukraine to join NATO.

I'm not surprised you didn't want me to respond. You're both ignorant and arrogant about the Ukraine situation.