I am stating, not defending, some of Russia’s incentives for this. Stating facts is not championing them.
I do in fact think that it is the U.S. that is mostly to blame for it coming to war. Not Ukraine itself. But the U.S. setting up Ukraine to use as a proxy. And that is just disgusting. I feel that certain parts of the U.S. government are willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
And I am freaked out about this stupid trip by Pelosi to Taiwan. Not because I think Taiwan should be consumed by China. I think it should be a sovereign nation. But the game of chicken is going to get a lot of people killed.