Oh wow, so there was “no Russian aggression between 2016 and 2020”? Let me tell you something: throughout those years, we were losing at least a company of soldiers deterring puppet proxies in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk that Russia armed, financed, controlled, and commanded in a Kremlin-led war to stop Ukraine from moving West. We spent nearly a decade warning the West against turning a blind eye to “the forgotten war” and ignoring Russia’s aggressive appetite —and here we are, still giving Putin a warm welcome for even more war and territorial grabs in Europe.