Russia and Ukraine

[The Valkyrie]

Proxy war:

"The United States aids Ukraine and her people," Adam Schiff declared in January 2020, "so that we can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here."

Schiff made this statement during the opening of Donald Trump's first impeachment trial, where the Democratic Party's bid to ensure unimpeded US weapons sales to Ukraine was presented, and widely accepted, as a valiant defense of US democracy and national security.

Two years later, the US use of Ukraine to "fight Russia over there" has reached its logical end-game: illegally, murderously, and catastrophically, Russia has invaded Ukraine to end the fight.

https://mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukr...ght-russia

Vietnam was a proxy war for Russia fighting America.

The Afghan war, after the Russian invasion, was a proxy war for America fighting Russia and, much later, for Russia fighting Americans (remember Putin putting bounties on the heads of US servicemen?).

Proxy wars between the West and Russia are nothing new.

Russia is not a "universal evil".

It is, however, at this point in time, a dictatorship with a megalomaniac in charge who has lied frequently to justify his invasion of a neighbouring country.

A country that has long suffered due to the whims of Russia.