Ukraine is ‘defending all of us’ from Putin - Timothy Snyder Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qdvjslwvIU
He argues that Russia is inventing stuff about its neighbour, in order to provide a (false) pretext to justify invasion. How is that any different that falsely stating Iraq had weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to invade Iraq?
There is no difference. At best, Russia probably wants a neutral Ukrainian state separate from NATO. At worst Russia wants a puppet Ukrainian state.
The USA probably approved which candidate should take over the running of Iraq. That candidate would need to be a lot more pro USA than Saddam Hussein was.
If Ukraine are protecting us all from Russia, then who is going protect any other states from the USA?