Russia and Ukraine

[Belacqua]

Detailed article here from the NYTimes, detailing the extent to which the US participated in the war. They weren't just shipping weapons, they were picking targets, planning strategy.

https://web.archive.org/web/202503300809...baden.html

It was the US fighting Russia, with Ukrainians doing the dying part.

The reporters have clearly talked to some high-level people. Now that the war is winding down, they will be looking to assign blame.

It's a shame we didn't do more.

Thank you for this temperate response.

I suppose the US generals were concerned about going from a proxy war, with the US pulling strings, into a more direct superpower conflict. Once it's Americans shooting from American bases, then Russia sees the US as a legitimate target. 

I get the sense from the article that nobody was ready for WWIII.