Why even pretend it makes sense? I dismiss most of his musings.
We can talk about how we arrived at this point in time but let’s stick to the facts. The US promised to leave Russia alone and for the last 30 years they have not. The US didn’t learn from Georgia so they doubled downed in Crimea. The people of the area held an elections and the US government didn’t like the outcome.
I’m not going to get into who’s right and who’s wrong. The US and Europe placed Russia into a timeout, and Russia made sure the US will never pull that stunt again for quite some time.