Appeasement never, ever works. US should have assisted Georgia in ‘08, given Russia a good bloody nose or just end it all. Ukraine War would have never happened.
Fast forward to 2008, Russia goes to war against Georgia in Eastern Europe. Georgia President asked a George W Bush and Collin Powell for help before the war and they turned their back in Georgia.
All the Founders of the US, Presidents, soldiers, people of historical value, pretty much any that believed in the law and freedom are all rolling in the grave