Not a bad reckoning. In more cruder terms, the USA set out to acquire more territory and influence in Eastern Europe through NATO expansion, up to Russia's border, despite previous undertakings and advice against it. The USA sought to have war directly with Russian speaking people in Eastern Ukraine, through funding of Ukraine Nationalists, which became the real puppet strings pulling on Zelensky, in order to "bleed and weaken Russia", because well, they thought they could. In true classic blowback style for USA foreign policy, it has been bleeding Ukraine and NATO so much more, an outcome, of which the USA controlling MIC "intelligence and influence" blob thought they could handle, and take advantage of, for instance, more exports of USA LNG to Europe, and loss of competition from European Industry, and openings for US trade through sanctions on Russia. Regardless of hopeful expectations, and other peoples lives and expense, it is the costs to the USA, NATO and Europe, which are now sinking the US imperial ship of state, its reputation, soft power and financial clout of the USA dollar, while the BRICS world and the rest just shake their heads and wonder whatever has become of USA generated ideology, regardless of todays Anglo-American media spin, that seems to be drilling down all the way to climate hell.
The Trump admin now faces the found out results problem, and Zelensky is now a liability, who has to be removed , but without too much harm to the reputation of, and having to double back on, all the previous propaganda Anglo-European war narratives about Russia. "We have always been at war with East Asia".