They counted on us to protect them and once they discovered neither we nor any other country was going to come to their aid, they allowed the pro-Russian leaders to run the show until Zelensky.

BTW, one of the things his financial experts found was that money that was supposed to go to Afghanistan was being laundered and stolen. As I said, this goes much deeper and I'm tending to believe the corrupt powers to be really want Putin out of the way for other reasons. Perhaps to stop the disclosures found on the books or to hide the work of the labs.