What Have We Missed?

i consider myself an advocate for peace. And this is one that empowered the hawks to then, you know, push for more extreme measures. It's been the objective of american foreigm policy for at least a decade to render russia weak and unable to assert itself in any manner-speaking. In european affairs, we wanted marginalazd. We wanted new to it as a power in europe. There seems to be almost a delight in getting this or expand did forget about negotiations? How did we get to this place?