Turkey and China stand alone blaming us more than we blame ourselves
I’m not an apologist for American imperialist adventures. In fact, I think the war in Iraq serves as a template in the post-cold war world for this sort of thing and said so at the time. (You can read it all right here on this blog.) But this particular war with Ukraine is simply not America’s fault, even when you look at it from 30,000 feet. Russia opportunistically decided to seize land that doesn’t belong to it, using a spurious pretext, and in the end validated every one of their neighbors’ fears that it will do the same to them, thus ironically strengthening NATO as a defensive alliance.
This war is unconscionable and the blame for it lies solely at the feet of the perpetrator: Russia. Americans who think otherwise, whether based on ideology or propaganda, are wrong.