With respect to Iraq, I agree. It was a sham, rammed on the American public by a small radical contingent (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc), taking advantage of a fear ba

With respect to Iraq, I agree. It was a sham, rammed on the American public by a small radical contingent (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc), taking advantage of a fear based climate. Unfortunately, the world has to deal with that America, and doesn’t get to see the full world outcomes of the policies of the true Americans, the 57% of Democrats who voted against that heinous war. For those Democrats and their constituents, there is no cognitive dissonance, confusion, or guilt. Kosovo is not like that egregious mistake. The ideal world is making the Kosovo call and still not having Putin invade. Maybe it provides a slim boost to Russian imperialism, and hindsight could play what if games about letting Kosovo atrocities happen if it meant preventing Ukrainian atrocities. But tbh, it doesn’t move the needle when Russia simply has its objectives in mind and comes up with a laundry list of everything “seemingly” contradictory the West has ever done as their rebuttal. You’d just have some other slightly even more irrelevant “Kosovo issue” taking its place in Putin talking points.