The system has failed. People are dying.
This is our Hitler.
Diplomacy was never an option.
Putin recorded his declaration of war before telling the world that diplomacy was still an option.
He will only be stopped by swift and decisive military action from the entirety of the free world.
Anything short of that, and the blood of Ukrainians is on the hands of the Western world too.
Things get complicated when you go toe to toe with a nuclear superpower.
What outcome do you expect when an authoritarian dictator with nukes is cornered and being bombarded by Western military from all sides?
Especially one ruled by a egotistical madman with a grudge
That said, nato should have made huge show and noise about the Russian preparations around Ukraine directly causing nato to strengthen and beef up on the eastern boarder, and upped the troops on nato states massively. Things they are doing now. Those things should have been done before.
The sanction timeline is okay, the nato beefing up an communication around it was late.
Only countries which can speak out are those which were against the NATO bombing and don't recognize Kosovo, everyone else has blood on their hands even without Ukraine.
I didn't realize that he was intervening in an ongoing genocide
Aren't euphemisms wonderful?
Well, no.
He may be claiming loosely similar things, but people can claim similar things when doing radically different ones.