Yea so not a lot of money and not worth the global instability, hence it’s a very poor theory. A much better one would be something like the US knowing that th

Yea so not a lot of money and not worth the global instability, hence it’s a very poor theory. A much better one would be something like the US knowing that the Russian military was in very rough shape and that an invasion would lead to the permanent decline of Russia and shore up allies in Europe and elsewhere so they goaded Putin into action by not doing anything after previous actions in places like Crimea. But that’s also prescribing too much agency to the US government.