{{quotebox-float|"The U.S. and its allies in the “[[collective West]]” now have to decide if the continued pursuit of a decades-long policy of isolating and destroying Russia is a matter of existential importance to them, and if the continued support of a Ukrainian government that is little more than the modern-day manifestation of the hateful ideology of [[Stepan Bandera]] is worth the lives of their respective citizenry, and that of the rest of the world."<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/22/scott-ritter-reaping-the-whirlwind/</ref>}}
{{quotebox-float|"The U.S. and its allies in the “[[collective West]]” now have to decide if the continued pursuit of a decades-long policy of isolating and destroying Russia is a matter of existential importance to them, and if the continued support of a Ukrainian government that is little more than the modern-day manifestation of the hateful ideology of [[Stepan Bandera]] is worth the lives of their respective citizenry, and that of the rest of the world."<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/22/scott-ritter-reaping-the-whirlwind/</ref>}}