Blame the European Nations for not taking Russia or their own security seriously enough for the past three decades.
Yes the GOP is preventing necessary aid from the United States, and that seriously pisses me off, but this idea that Europe isn’t MORE responsible for this is absolutely enraging.
They were warned over and over and over by literally every US Administration since Bill Clinton and they ignored it. They had a clanging wake up call in 2014 but yawned, rolled over, and went back to sleep. Angela Merkel and a whole pile of other European leaders did nothing but finger wag, chastise, and call the US ignorant war mongers all the while the problem grew and grew. Hell they were still calling the US stupid war mongers 48 hours before the invasion of Ukraine kicked off!
They, being Western Europe, have spent literally decades playing “3 Monkeys”. THEY bear the primary responsible for its existence and the primary responsibility for its resolution. The US has some responsibility to help but the BLAME doesn’t belong to us. At all.