>He flirted irresponsibly with NATO

Ukraine has been wanting to get into NATO since 2008, and really wanted to get into NATO since Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. All this happened before Zelensky's presidency, which started in 2019.

Also popular opinion has been pro-NATO since 2014, and Ukraine is a democracy.

> and now his country is at war with a military superpower.

Russia is not a military superpower.