The Bush Hussein WMD ruse/lie was laughably bad, but compared to Putin's "Selensky is the second coming of Hitler" show, in hindsight the Bush play seems like Academy Awards material compared to that school play where even parents leave. When a country is ruled by someone as incompetent as Putin (yeah, until recently I considered him very competent, just in bad things, but like so many I stand corrected) it's never good for the people living there. And the blame for that does not lie outside of the country's borders.