...in the past, I have said that the United States needs to cultivate Russia as a potential ally against China for the next 100 years.
But, two things have changed my short term approach:
1) Russian military is not half of what we thought it was. (Even so, it still could be useful to have a nuclear ally on the border of China.)
2) They attacked Ukraine when we elected a weak president. That doesn't let them off the hook (that Biden was president, and they sensed weakness). It just exposes Putin as the aggressor we always knew he was. There is the advantage that now the Left can no longer justify pacifying him by allowing him to take chunks of Ukraine, Georgia or whatever. But most importantly, Putin obviously lost any moral high ground he pretended to have. I'm not saying that Ukraine's government is pure...any more than I would say that about the United States. I'm not saying that there aren't bad people in Ukraine, any more than I would say that about the United States or Russia. But, in this case, for this war, on this issue, I think Ukraine is in the right, and Russia is in the wrong.
I welcome you to convince me otherwise.