>the conflict is a proxy war of US with Russia over geopolitics I don't think so. It's a conflict between Russia and pretty much every country on it's borders.

>the conflict is a proxy war of US with Russia over geopolitics I don't think so. It's a conflict between Russia and pretty much every country on it's borders. The Russian leadership believe Russia is already an occupied country. It's occupied by Georgians and Ukrainians living on Russian land. It's occupied by Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians siting on territory rightly belonging to Russia. If the Russian Federation was satisfied with it's current borders, and trading with other nations equally, there would be no conflict. The US and the rest of Europe have no aggressive intentions towards the Russian Federation as it currently exists. NATO poses no threat whatsoever to the borders or stability of the Russian Federation. However the Russian Federation is not satisfied with those borders.The Russian leadership believes it's already in a war since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. They believe the territory 'they' lost back then is rightly 'theirs', and this is why they nibbled away at Georgia and Ukraine in the past. The problem is the Georgians, Ukrainians, etc living on those lands don't agree those lands should be Russian. Hence war. If the US and NATO didn't exist or didn't care, Russia would still have invaded Ukraine, in fact it would probably have done it in 2014. The US is a foe of Russia because it blocks Russian expansionist ambitions. Aside from that the US doesn't give a crap about Russia. Why should they?