I think decisions with regard to Russia's security and the threats is faces should be taken in Moscow and not Washington or Brussels or London.

NATO is an aggressive military alliance and a Cold War relic that should have been disbanded long before now. It exists as an instrument of US imperialism, and it this instrument and the attempt to place a cordon sanitaire around Russia, using the Baltic States, Ukraine, and Poland as cat's paws that has led to this brutal conflict.

As to the Holodomor that was not the result of Stalin's genoicidal attempt to 'obliterate Ukraine'. That was the result of his crazed attempt at forced collectivization with the objective of industrializing the SU at breakneck speed in order to catch up to the West.

The demonization of Putin and Russia in general may be cathartic on a certain level, but just consider the disaster that is Western foreign policy that has led to where we are now.