Yes, I think Biden was hoping that getting the country worked up about “Russia, Russia, Russia” would work like magic as it always does and he badly needed a distraction.
But, this evil plan for a proxy war was actually hatched in the Obama/Biden administration.
By the way, we fund this Rand Corp. research. We paid for the report.
Overextending and Unbalancing Russia
Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options
Rand Report 2019
This brief summarizes a report that comprehensively examines nonviolent, cost-imposing options that the United States and its allies could pursue across economic, political, and military areas to stress—overextend and unbalance—Russia’s economy and armed forces and the regime’s political standing at home and abroad. Some of the options examined are clearly more promising than others, but any would need to be evaluated in terms of the overall U.S. strategy for dealing with Russia, which neither the report nor this brief has attempted to do.
Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability. But any increase in U.S. military arms and advice to Ukraine would need to be carefully calibrated to increase the costs to Russia of sustaining its existing commitment without provoking a much wider conflict in which Russia, by reason of proximity, would have significant advantages.”
And so they chose Ukraine as the “greatest point of external vulnerability” for Russia.
Part of that plan was “buying” Ukraine for $5 billion dollars and bringing about regime change there by installing our own puppet.
Turns out that this did not provide as much “Russian vulnerability” as they were expecting.
That's the bottom line, shameful that Biden (and Z) will fight Russia to the last Ukraine male.