Yep. The EU should have developed their military alliance after the collapse of the Soviet Union so we can pull out. Downsize our military except for the Navy.
Or in the alternative, NATO should have invited Russia to join.
The U.S. should have befriended Russia after the Cold War, the same way it befriended Germany and Japan.
Instead, American "economic advisers" assisted the oligarchs in financially raping the Russian people, while the Neocons gloated and rubbed Russia's face in its collapse.
Little wonder that the Russian people turned to a strongman who would "make Russia great again."