United Ukraine without silly doctrine of NATO “integration” at a price of shattered country would have been much better.

Geopolitics is a harsh mistress, and Ukraine had a great chance to become a bridge between two civilizational clusters (cf. Finland before 2022, Turkey, Kazakhstan, or Uzbekistan). Their nationalistic compradors chosen the road of post-colonial victim syndrome and entered the besieged fortress mode. Well, at least, Ukraine's dismal example is already cooling a lot of hot heads in the grey peripheral area betwixt the EU and Russia. Cursed be Putin, Ukrainian nationalists, and Dem Party neocon warmongers alike.