The people who drove Ukraine into this mess are Putin and his cronies. I'm quite sure that they aren't running understandingwar.org. That said, the organizati

The people who drove Ukraine into this mess are Putin and his cronies. I'm quite sure that they aren't running understandingwar.org. That said, the organization does have a pro-US military bias, but works to create neutral and factual reporting. If you don't like their bias, you can double check with a variety of other sources with different biases. For example https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/ https://www.aljazeera.com/where/ukraine/ does not take a pro-US position. Also, appeasing Russia HAS been tried. We let them take part of Georgia. We let them take part of Ukraine 8 years ago. We let them have a free hand in Syria. And through that all, we continued to treat them as a normal country. Germany in particular proceeded on a "business as usual" policy. We even raised only minimal objections when they were caught trying to manipulate elections in a variety of countries including the USA. (Without Russian assistance Trump would have never been President.) The result has been the current full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Offering full support to Ukraine is a reversal of our previous policies.