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I mean...we are clearly in a proxy war with Russia. We are dumping a huge amount of resources into ensuring that they lose their conflict with Ukraine, or at le
by idiotsecant 4y ago
I mean...we are clearly in a proxy war with Russia. We are dumping a huge amount of resources into ensuring that they lose their conflict with Ukraine, or at least win a pyrrhic victory that will destabilize the regime.
You can argue whether it's a good use of resources or not (I think it is a good use of resources right now) but it's clearly silly to argue that the US is not doing this.
- genman 4y agoThe definition of proxy war is quite specific. It requires that a third party is waging war at the instigation or on behalf of us. This is not true. Russia attacked Ukraine and Ukraine is defending itself on its own. We only provide necessary assistance for it to do so. Of course these arguments come up that try to rationalize this support in many ways but it doesn't matter. Ukraine doesn't continue to fight to please us but because it is an existential matter for itself.