We can't be like that or anyone with a nuclear warhead can play blackmail.
There wasn't the political will to do anything about it.
Syria: same. Chechnya: same.
Until it's at Europe's doorstep and suddenly everyone's paying attention.
Zelenskyy has done well to keep functioning and not become bitter.
Putin has badly misread the EU and NATO in particular. He has made a massive miscalculation, imagining that the West will be OK about the Ukraine and more...well NO!
