you can't seriously believe that, can you ? let's just pretend that were the case (I dispute in 2 cases 1 ) in Ukraine's fault and 2) Putin's motivation) - all Putin had to say to the US and NATO is that would lead to war and it way would be negotiated to avoid a war no that didn't happen because Putin wanted the war, and had much bigger goals and nothing was going to stop him - I remember the US saying that Putin is going to invade despite Putin's claims that was just western propaganda (with many Putin fanboys here on HC repeating it )
and then he just did it - no ultimatum, ..just a Hitleresque blitzkrieg - except a totally inept blitzkrieg and here we are
