All nations are only beholden to their own citizens and only cooperate with other nations out of self interest.
The only periods of relative peace that the world has ever seen have been during the reign of a supreme hegemonic power.
"Russia attacked a weaker country because it is stronger. This is why we need one country to be stronger than any other country."
Mutually Assured Destruction works because of the Mutually part.
That doesn’t change by letting palantir build the surveillance state.
Putin wasn’t scared of the consequences because he knew it would be politically suicidal the west to risk escalation to a large mainland European war that’s been mostly considered a relic.