That’s the intention, isn’t it....
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Duh! Deplete our Strategic Oil supply, drain our military, go $100 billion into further unpayable debt, can’t anyone see what our vegetable head is doing?
Carry on war cheerleaders, your Russian Derangement Syndrome is appalling.
The present US government is incompetent in a thousand ways, but even these fools can react as the USG has been institutionally programmed to do for the last 80 years. The US is set up to do what it’s been doing, and it would take a truly enormous ideological-institutional flip NOT to back the Euros.
Luckily for all of us there are real brains at work in all this. Eastern Europe, notably Poland with its current government, is in the lead on assistance to Ukraine. They shamed the rest of Europe into walking the walk. They are up close and personal vis a vis the vast evil that is Russia.
On the other side of the world, Japan and Korea are in the lead vs the danger out of China. I respect the Japs a lot on this.
As for conspiracies - sure there are. The participants are fools though, or if in public they are infatuated pretenders. The problem of complexity and unintended consequences tends to sabotage such plans at the start. The whole Euro “green” strategy was screwed by this one episode, and that’s just what’s out in public.
The world moves on in a chaotic way, unplanned, unplannable, reacting to unanticipated changes and inputs coming from everywhere. The idea of a grand strategy to change the world is fatuous hubris.