The grave failure of the west was that we spent 30 years basically thinking that bad people are not bad people if we talk to them strong enough.
And if we negotiate with them or if we ignore them taking pieces of territory in Georgia under Bush or Crimea under Obama; if we just ignore it hard enough and then maybe it sort of goes away.
And now deterrence has failed and it seems like the world order is radically reshifting.
Where do you think this ends up?