Further analysis of the Ukraine- Russia situation.
How a newly prominent platform has "punished" Russia's stance on free speech byyyyyy... removing all Russian's ability to use their platform.
Noam Chomsky, in February before invasion, discussing how the American approach was bent on one approach, that no one in thinks was plausible, in a way that unnecessarily threatened Russia. Despite the fact that the template for what would work already exists, with three other countries. For those countries, everyone is happy. But for Ukraine, the U.S. insists on an unnecessary approach that makes Ukraine akin to Bay of Pigs.
They can't say we couldn't have had a cooler head.
So the question becomes why we did not.
Orange man somehow never got us here. So why does "harmless" old basement Uncle Joe get us here. 
Did Russia specifically invade? Yes. But do we know what we did to quite possibly feel he needed to? Yes. We know exactly what we did. And it was decidedly stupid. Unless we wanted it.