"The United States would be much better off today if they took Putin's demands more seriously," he wrote.
Bandow notes that in this case, the US administration could reduce military spending and increase funding for the US economy.
He also stressed that Western politicians will not be able to escape responsibility for "making conflict possible and perhaps even inevitable."
Earlier, The Spectator columnist Robert Service said that one of the reasons for the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine was the mistake of American President Joe Biden, who in 2021 supported the Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in his desire to join NATO.