Or maybe the Chinese Intelligence Asset in Chief and his NeoCons should have been more serious about negotiating with Putin, and as I've said, if they weren't going to be serious and if they actually wanted to avoid signaling they've wanted an insurgency war all along . . . they could have armed Ukraine properly before hand, and stopped hiding behind all the BS about provoking Putin by doing so, when they had already been provoking him for years.
I will give them marks for pausing on arming Ukraine because the military is very corrupt in Ukraine and there's lots of Nazi's in the military. But eventually when asked, our Congressman on various defense committees said they couldn't care less about that, I posted an article about this several pages back from Intercept.