I am American, but I am no fool... We aren't dealing with a weakling in Russia, and the Russians aren't weaklings or a weak people, so us understanding this keeps us from making mistakes that might cause Russia to make a mistake that would make the world regret that mistake. Calmer head's prevail hopefully, but politicizing this could move this situation across the border in Ukraine, and the besieged Zelensky would love that one, because it would shift the battle off of him, and onto the world in which is what he's been begging for since the beginning. We are so stupid that political posturing and grandstanding placed us into a position where we can't help in secret a nation that wanted to help itself. Sorry, but we are just idiot's anymore. Sad situation.