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NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union but after the USSR fell apart, NATO did not disband. Instead Europeans hired the USA for their defense. The USA enjoyed the status and power of being the dominant military force in Europe.

Unfortunately "entangling alliances" such as NATO tend to draw us into remote conflicts where we have nothing to gain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Doctrine_of_Unstabl...

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It blows my mind at how so many people think this is unprovoked and think we somehow have a responsibility to resolve this conflict.

Some seem to have forgotten how the neocons/CIA have stirred the pot in Ukraine for at least a decade under Democratic administrations. Some say it was a mistake to do what they (neocons) did but I think it was a good outcome. Russian is now like North Korea, able to "win" (and even that is questionable) only a nuclear conflict.

Furthermore Russia's population of fighting men is down, which will require that they return home to seed a new generation of cannon fodder (not an entirely bad assignment BTW in either Russia or Ukraine) for their czar-like leaders. I feel sorry for the handicapped wounded however.

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