[Travis McGee]

Here is the real story, IMHO.

Why did Globo Homo/NATO/EU deliberately push all of Russia's clearly articulated red-line buttons, intentionally triggering the invasion of Ukraine, the invasion that Russia said would happen if Ukraine was going to be added to NATO? Even in February 2022, NATO/EU/USA diplos kept saying, "Ukraine is going to join NATO, shove it, Moscow!"

The invasion could have been stopped with a simple declaration that Ukraine would not join NATO. For this "principle," thousands of Ukrainians (and Russians) have died. This was not an accident, this was a deliberate provocation, with a known outcome.

And why now, in 2022, when the Ukraine conflict has been simmering since the GAE-sponsored coup in 2014?

IMHO, it's because the USA/NATO/MIC (Military Industrial Complex) needed to find a rapid replacement for Afghanistan, once that billion dollar a day MIC spigot was turned off. And the GAE/MIC grifters don’t give a damn if the war materiel ever makes it to the eastern Ukraine battlefields, or if it’s blown up in arsenals or on rail cars or in truck convoys in Western Ukraine.

In fact, the longer and more inconclusively the war drags on, the better. Why? Because all of the war materiel taken from U.S. stocks and sent to Ukraine will be replaced many times over at full cost to the U.S. taxpayer.

The Afghanistan money spigot was turned off, so the Ukraine spigot was turned on.

“War is business, and business is good!”

[Grzegorz 246]

“The invasion could have been stopped with a simple declaration that Ukraine would not join NATO.”

1. Zele said that clearly like 2 months ago.

2. Ukraine in NATO has never been a real issue. Any new member must be approved by all of existing members.

[Lurker]

“The Afghanistan money spigot was turned off, so the Ukraine spigot was turned on.”

I have no problem believing that.

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[kiryandil]

And the GAE/MIC grifters don’t give a damn if the war materiel ever makes it to the eastern Ukraine battlefields, or if it’s blown up in arsenals or on rail cars or in truck convoys in Western Ukraine.

Right.

The dreamers in UPS delivery [Unicorn Parcel Service] of all these new weapons fail to understand the most simple facts of the battlefield logistics:

The weapons from the West have to cross 500-600 miles of Ukraine to the tip of the AFU spear - under the eye of Russian air power, artillery and missiles.

Russia can throw a rock west and hit the Donbass battlefield, without interdiction.

As you said - the MIC grifters don't care. Just like they didn't care about the tens of billions in weaponry left in Afghanistan.