“The mismatch between the realities on the ground and the nature of the president’s pronouncements reveals a president who is out of touch with reality.”

This has been one of the underlying themes of those who have argued from the beginning of this drama that the West doesn’t have a stake in Ukraine’s fate to even approach the stake of Russia, which has included Ukraine within its sphere of influence for the past three and a half centuries and has viewed that relationship as crucial to its sense of national security.