Diplomacy, specifically taking the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO off the table, would have been a better course of action to potentially prevent the conflict.

“But even if you believe it was a pretext and Putin is making up this whole red line thing and his real goal is the expansion of Mother Russia and all that kind of stuff. Or reunification. Let's say that's his real goal. It's still wouldn't have been a good idea for Blinken to basically declare that ”