Nice and decent men don't break the promises like the one he made to the base on the border and Ukraine war.
He's either been bought off or being blackmailed because of some dark secret he has.
Alas, my experience has been that “nice” people are often the first to duck out when they should be in the fight. It is not a matter of being bought off or blackmailed. They are, to use an old term, chicken-hearted.