The former Warsaw Pact states had every right to join NATO. They suffered for 40 years under Soviet Russian control. Putin can stick the “red lines” were the Sun don’t shine…
So now Putin is destroying the Ukraine because the Ukraine doesn’t want peace, even if it means losing every last Ukrianian soldier and conscripted citizen. The Ukraine will possibly lose Odessa; Zelensky’s puppeteers are THAT committed to not giving up. They want WWIII and they haven’t gotten what they want yet.
The US would not tolerate Chinese biolabs and armies on our southern border, Putin and others in the international community warned that he had been completely clear and serious about not tolerating missile installations in the Crimea, aimed at Russia.
So now, the Ukrainians are lucky if they keep Odessa. If not, they are landlocked. Couldn’t happen to a nicer puppet than Zelensky, but the public suffers for Zelensky’s puppet status.