The roots of the conflict go back to attacks on Donetsk and moves by NATO since 1991 All I can tell you is -- just because intellectual-sounding people like Ch

The roots of the conflict go back to attacks on Donetsk and moves by NATO since 1991 All I can tell you is -- just because intellectual-sounding people like Chomsky, Mearsheimer et al; not to mention Putin himself -- whom you are apparently cribbing from, knowingly or otherwise -- say things like this, doesn't make it so. If you actually walk back and look at the event chronology you'll find there's no substantial basis for either of these narratives. NATO (the US) is using Ukraine to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, The implication you are making here is that the Ukrainians at large have no real agency in the situation, and basically have no idea why they're actually fighting.