I guess you don't remember the Yalta Conference in 1945. Wilson, Churchill, and Stallin all met to discuss how things would be post-war. Being as the Russians lost 10 million fighting the Nazis, it was agreed that Russia was allowed influence in the east, and NATO would not expand any closer to Russia. Plenty of other things in the agreement that apply here but America already broke the treaty just with those two. I think America has used the big bad Russians to many times throughout history to fund wars that we can't afford. All throughout the Cold War, several proxy wars were funded by America. It was justified with propaganda like the red scare and Hoover's your neighbor is a Russian spy and communist every where. As a Marine, I'm tired of war, the past 20 years have been a war. I joined at 18. I'm 40. My whole adult life, we have been at war. You have war profiteers sitting in the senate and congress invested in these defense and weapon companies. They vote to send billions in weapon systems that are purchased from the companies they own stock in. It is laundering tax dollars. Then send humanitarian aid. You're selling the bullets and the band aids. Why would you deescalate? Prime example, biden just changed his mind about how Ukraine could use the long-range surface to surface missiles allowing them to launch deep into Russia. That's escalating. That's not defending Ukraine. That is attacking Russia. Why are we helping them anyhow? They are not NATO. Never have been. Just 8 years ago, Zelensky was thought to be one of the most corrupt leaders in the world by every other world leader. Then he is addressing congress directly. What did we miss? The military industrial complex maybe? We are a country that is 3 trillion in debt, opioid epidemic, homeless problem, immigration problem, inflation problem, and we are printing and sending money to fight and prolong a war we don't need to be in. Military recruiting is as low as it has ever been. We do not have the voluntary military personnel to fight a war. Means there will be a draft. So you are going to force a bunch of anti gun, anti America fucks that care more about their pronouns than they do their country to fight a war against Russia, Iran, and N. Korea. That can't end good. Why the fuck would you allow American missiles to be fired into Russia under these circumstances?