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The first gulf war is an interesting thing to look at. Saddamn told the US state department he would invade Kuait because they were cross drilling into Iraqi oil fields and we're traditionally a 'part of Iraq'.
State department said we don't care
Of course, they did care and used that as cassus belli to attack Iraq and 'contain' Saddam which was the original intended consequence.
The war in Ukraine is the same. The neocons in the US have wanted Ukraine to open it's markets to blackrock and Goldman Sachs forever. They helped foment the coup and selected Ukrainians president. They knew Russia would invade if Ukraine started the process to join NATO.
The US wanted this war. It was a trap for Putin and because he is an idiot he fell for it. The goal is to weaken Russia , sell us LNG to Germany at 200% markup and flood Lockheed and Raytheon with billions of dollars. It's a win win for the US because no American boots on the ground they get to fight Russia via proxy until the last Ukrainian.
I'm totally against the war and old enough to understand the only way it ends is with a negotiated settlement.
A negotiated settlement is worth nothing without all of the russian soldiers leaving ukraine.