TOO LATE

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/24/world/russia-attacks-ukraine

Today, our esteemed president Biden said the words that should have been said a decade ago, as a matter of fact the day, Mr. Yeltsin got into his car and drove away from a waving Putin after giving him the reins. I saw the scene of Yeltsin's departure in a documentary and will never forget the look on Putin's face as he watched Yeltsin recede into history and Russia be left at his disposal to steer as he chose. Putin is a KGB dude and felt deeply betrayed by his superiors as he kept calling to them that the sky was falling during the last days of the USSR and heard only silence. Putin never forgave the US for breaking up the USSR. And he is still pretty loud. The look in Putin's eyes the day he saw Yeltsin off was that of pure glee, one that plainly said he didn't need to call up to anybody now. Now, he would restore USSR to its former glory. What he doesn't get is that the glory of the USSR was based on the utopian idea of Communism; Putin's is built on ego.

The US should have known this and removed Putin a long time ago, when he was just a little tadpole and not this immovable frog he has grown into. 

Now, the people of Ukraine will pay. A terrible a shame again because of the US's short-sightedness and arrogance on one side, and indifference on the other.