So the whole, "the village had to be destroyed to save it" mindset from Vietnam.
The difference here is that its not their children dying, they'd sacrifice others children, but not their own (except to be slaves to the interest on the debt, they don't care about that).
Its an evolutionary response really
You care more about dead Russians than Putin does.
~ Alexa
Thats it that all you have?
No one forced him to do that, just as no one is forcing you to use his talking points.
This is debatable, really depends upon what you mean by FORCED. Was he literally forced? No, was Putin figuratively forced? Its a reasonable argument, after East Germany went to the west, and US/NATO promised not to go further, NATO certainly did go east.
Recall Kennedy blocking Russian missiles headed for Cuba, was Kennedy forced into Nuclear confrontation? IF the world had ended that day, would you blame Kennedy or Khrushchev? If China puts nukes in Cuba, and Latin America, or say Mexico is that threat to the US?
Would the US be wrong to want to stop it?
Its really easy and brain dead to paint one side as EVIL and the other GOOD, history is much more complicated and subtle.