Yes, measure the distance between Moscow and Kiev and compare that with the distance between Washington and Tehran or Baghdad or Kabul or Hanoi.

Then compare the risk of Ukraine joining Nato and installing nuclear weapons their to the non existent risks in any of US wars of choices.

Russian and Iranian regimes are exceptionally brutal and criminal, we saw that in Syria. But we can't pretend they went to these wars for sports in the way neocons in the US do.

But this is not me defending authoritarian regimes, this is me being very frustrated about the failure of democracies.