Editorial: Putin wants to undermine Western unity. Here’s why US and NATO cannot let that happen

Every so often Vladimir Putin draws back the shades and gives the West a portal into what he’s thinking. He did so Monday, unspooling a rambling hourlong monologue that served as revisionist red meat for the former Soviet KGB agent’s domestic audience, and a gauntlet on the floor for President Joe Biden and the nation he leads.

Putin railed against U.S. dominance in the post-Cold War world order, and demeaned Ukraine as a concoction of the Bolsheviks — an entity that has no legal justification to enjoy statehood. He fabricated a broad array of rationales for Russian aggression, including the wholly fantastical