Can't add anything else to this eloquent, informative piece, Robert! You've covered all the bases and anyone -- willing to really pay attention -- will see that what you've written stands up to ALL the propaganda being spewed by the West. Putin's first mistake was trusting the West to negotiate in good faith from James Baker's, "Not one inch eastward!" to the underhanded fraud of the Minsk Protocol (with French president, Macron now confirming what Angela Merkel said was its purpose).

Meanwhile, citizens around the world continue to suffer under the weight of all that's gone on before and since this war began. {SMDH}