Introduction

Sally Kohn: I don't think we know why Vladimir Putin really decided to invade Ukraine. She says a lot of people who are sympathetic to Putin or at least inclined to apologize for the worst of what Putin does, had a favorite supposed explanation for why Putin felt the need to start that war. Kohn: A lot of Putin apologists and Putin sympathizers said that Putin felt like he had to invade Ukraine because he felt very shy about NATO. The NATO Alliance just had too many countries in it, too many countries that were too close to Russia," she says.