I can't shake off the fact that Western powers won the cold war but imposed a victor's peace on Russia. It's more of an assessment than "fact". But still, you

I can't shake off the fact that Western powers won the cold war but imposed a victor's peace on Russia. It's more of an assessment than "fact". But still, you don't need to shake if off. You can obsess about it all you want, in fact. What matters here is that the current conflict not just entirely one-sided -- but utterly, completely insane. And that that there are absolutely no historical circumstances which explain, contextualize or otherwise minimize the aggressor's actions.