Your consistent sarcasm is both ignorant and arrogant. A challenge, produce a Putin quite where he wants to reestablish the Soviet empire.

Understanding a Russian perspective is not the same as endorsing it. The region of the Ukraine that Putin wanted, voted 80 percent for the pro Russia Ukraine candidate. They speak Russian, and they have a multi century history of being Russian. It is know the US engineered a color revolution in 2014, and broke many agreements. We now know that the negotiations with Russia were not in good faith, but simply to allow time to build the military. George Washington advised to stay out of foreign wars, and for very good reasons. Was he “rootin for Putin?