President Putin is a fairly honest man. No one seems to listen to him or try to see the world from a Russian perspective. Most people know nothing about the harsh conditions imposed on these people. Of course, the world should never trust the U.S. Europe went along with the incredibly unnecessary and insane Ukraine proxy war and now, they are having a very cold winter. Americans don't care that Germany and most of Europe will suffer a large recession, depression even. All that was required was to listen to Putin and be fair to the Russian state. Now, the world is as close to thermo nuclear conflict as ever. U.S. leaders knew Ukraine was the "Red Line" for Russian national security and the political invasion of 2014 in Ukraine by American plotters was incredibly arrogant and illegal, of course. Putin and the Russian population rightly see this as the enemy moving in next door. No nation would find this acceptable, a direct existential threat. The U.S. would have carpet-bombed any nation even thinking of trying that nonsense