The mistake was playing footsies with a very corrupt Ukraine.
I wouldn’t try to make mileage off that logic in our present state.
Now the US behaves more like the Soviet Union than Russia
When the CIA/deep state flipped Ukraine in 2014, it forced the USA to swallow a virulent cancer. Look at "Ukraine" role in Fusion GPS/Steele Dossier, Biden Burisma Corruption, Trump impeachment, etc... and tell me I'm wrong.
If you ever go to Eastern Europe things get worse and worse the closer you get to Ukraine. Corruption causes their poverty. We have no vital interest there.
The mistake was electing a neocon President after Reagan won the cold war. F’ing neocons don’t want peace, they are the war war war party. I will never ever vote for a hated neocon.