You can call a spade a spade but if you did a hole with a backhoe that backhole doesn't magically become a spade. I'm a bit confused on how you think the USA g

You can call a spade a spade but if you did a hole with a backhoe that backhole doesn't magically become a spade. I'm a bit confused on how you think the USA got Ukraine to do the fighting considering Russia invaded (did USA pay off Russia to invade?). But regardless, yes Ukraine is at war and USA is not. It's just like if I drove to the dry cleaners and had them wash something. I didn't wash it; I'm not a dry cleaner. Playing the dry cleaners money or etc doesn't change that fact. > Our constant involvement in cyclical non-wars sure doesn't feel the same as "peace" to me. Maybe that word just doesn't mean what I think it does anymore I mean my whole argument is that you're using war to describe something that isn't so I guess this makes two of us. > Or maybe we have our tentacles in so many places that warmaking and peacemaking have become indistinguishable. Yes, because the USA is not at war. Russia warmakes with Ukraine so Ru & UA are at war and efforts by other countries China/USA/etc would likely be peacemaking efforts because China/USA/etc aren't at war. If USA declared war on Russia then it'd be a warmaking effort. > The world is our mercenary. Which countries did the USA hire to fight another one? That's also a word not being used correctly.