Strange that the US insisted on a joint declaration in 2008, despite the firm objections of Germany, to the future of Georgia and Ukraine in NATO. This goes way back to the verbal, but recorded, commitment of the West to Gorbachev to not expand NATO an “inch to the East” if he agreed to dismantle the Wall. Before 2008 Russia had taken not one move to threaten any former Soviet Republic state. This changed in 2008 and again in 2014, after the coup in Ukraine. You can check these facts for yourself. Despite all these facts and despite the fact that NATO pushed eastwards anyway, Europe did nothing to disengage economically from Russia. If we decided that Putin was the enemy why did we fund his military for two decades? The policy of the West made no sense strategically or morally, anyway you choose to look at it.