If history teaches us anything, it is that autocrats and would-be invaders should know what the world thinks before anything happens.
The West made a serious mistake when they merely looked on as Russia took control of the Donbas region of Ukraine, at the same time annexing Crimea in 2014. It made things so much easier for Putin when launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, having effectively persuaded the world that the Donbas and Crimea are ‘part of Russia’ and that Russian invasions had legitimacy.
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