I’m not sure what you’re trying to say I’m delusional about, or what you’re trying to claim is propaganda, but nice lil throw-in there. Good to see you’re not actually trying to have a conversation.
It seems you’ve entirely missed the point though. Of course Russia would rather Ukraine as their subject, and that they would rather they have a russia-friendly government (after all, a third of Ukraine speaks Russian).
There is no justification for Russia invading Ukraine.
But the US has actually done nothing to try to end this war, and has done much to provoke it, and I think that’s because we have a perpetual war economy. You said it yourself, it’s a good deal to weaken our rivals – we don’t actually need American troops on the ground, but we can still fight the evil Russians, hoo-rah! Fuck them communists! Talk about hawkish propaganda.
Edit: oh, and by the way, if you really want to argue that US should be in this proxy war because Russia is a big US “rival”: Russia’s GDP is ~2 trillion dollars compared to the US 26 trillion, so not exactly economic rivals, and comparing NATO vs Russia military prowess isnt much of a fairer balance. So how do you mean that Russia is a US rival? Historically, sure, but we shouldn’t go invading everyone considered a historical “rival,” should we?
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say I’m delusional about, or what you’re trying to claim is propaganda, but nice lil throw-in there. Good to see you’re not actually trying to have a conversation.
It seems you’ve entirely missed the point though. Of course Russia would rather Ukraine as their subject, and that they would rather they have a russia-friendly government (after all, a third of Ukraine speaks Russian).
There is no justification for Russia invading Ukraine.
But the US has actually done nothing to try to end this war, and has done much to provoke it, and I think that’s because we have a perpetual war economy. You said it yourself, it’s a good deal to weaken our rivals – we don’t actually need American troops on the ground, but we can still fight the evil Russians, hoo-rah! Fuck them communists! Talk about hawkish propaganda.
Edit: oh, and by the way, if you really want to argue that US should be in this proxy war because Russia is a big US “rival”: Russia’s GDP is ~2 trillion dollars compared to the US 26 trillion, so not exactly economic rivals, and comparing NATO vs Russia military prowess isnt much of a fairer balance. So how do you mean that Russia is a US rival? Historically, sure, but we shouldn’t go invading everyone considered a historical “rival,” should we?