Who was it that scrapped Bush’s missile-defense plan for Poland and the Czech Republic, among others?
If such a blatant retreat and such a perverted signal of weakness had not been presented to the world (by ditching the tech advantage and missile shield) then perhaps Russia would not have thrown its weight around biting off pieces of Ukraine. Many lives may have been saved.
But the Peace Prize recipient had to help cause war and strife by empowering would-be thugs.