Admitted? I admit no such thing. If someone’s view of reality is your stuff belongs to them, either you give it to them or you are in a conflict. Russia put a puppet government in place and that government was removed. Whether it was done by the CIA* or locally is not relevant. The point is a significant number of the Ukrainian people are willing to fight and die because they don’t want to live under a Russian Mafia state. This doesn’t mean the Ukraine government is lily white and pure. (Look at our government, drug users and bribe takers.)
Look at the near hysterical support for Ukraine coming from the former Soviet states who also don’t want to live under a Russian Mafia state. If the West provoked this, they didn’t have to provoke very hard. “Hey, you guys want some weapons?” “Yes!!”
* Does anybody think the CIA is competent enough to do this? I spent a career dealing with government officials at numerous levels. Government is the only place most of them could have worked as they were terrible employees.
We know. And because you will not even consider that possiblity, any analysis of options and outcomes is deficient and we need read no further.
That's because you want to fight to our deaths for a prejudice you have.
Here is the real problem. The US is blessed by being protected by two oceans. All we need is maritime supremacy, and we are secure. All we need is investment and home to stoke our own economy and with maritime supremacy we can trade with anyone who has an accessible port. So we are prosperous.
Instead you idiot want to trade all of that for a land war on the Eurasian plain where people have been fight and dying since there were poeple to fight and die to stake out some land on an immense plain with no natural defensible boundaries until you get to the Carpathian mountains.
Fools. All of your kind.