"Far from being a nasty brutish exercise of raw power to take over a country, it will turn out that Vladmir Putin spent 8 years exhausting diplomacy first and trying to get the UN and EU and NATO to live up their stated ideals before he most reluctantly launched a defensive operation to remove a genuine threat." https://www.nato.int/nrc-website/media/59451/1997_nato_russia_founding_act.pdf
"Far from being a nasty brutish exercise of raw power to take over a country, it will turn out that Vladmir Putin spent 8 years exhausting diplomacy first and trying to get the UN and EU and NATO to live up their stated ideals before he most reluctantly launched a defensive operation to remove a genuine threat." https://www.nato.int/nrc-website/media/59451/1997_nato_russia_founding_act.pdf