On National Unity Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin used the occasion to once again justify the war against Ukraine and make accusations against the West. “The so-called friends of Ukraine have pushed the situation to a point where it became dangerous for Russia and suicidal for the Ukrainian people,” Putin said in Moscow on Friday, according to Russian news agency reports. Putin said Western policy was aimed at “weakening, dividing, destroying Russia.” “We will never allow this. We will protect our homeland as our forefathers did,” the Russian leader said during a speech to historians and…