What did we do when Russia supplied weapons to the Taliban, the Viet Cong, ISIS and Iraq?
You mean after we started wars in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iraq?
“What did we do when Russia supplied weapons to the Taliban, the Viet Cong, ISIS and Iraq?”
Nice textbook straw man argument.
The equivalent argument would be what would the USA do if we invaded Northern Mexico why maybe to wipe out the cartels and Mexico asked for help from the Chinese who then gave them hypersonic missiles which Mexico cannot target or plan missions for without direct Chinese satellite intel, sat guidance and Chinese techs to enter that classified data for flight paths. Then those missiles start hitting the oil complex in Houston and the Air Force base in Texas and Louisiana where we keep our strategic bombers. What do you think the USA would say? They would say China is at war with the USA as much as Mexico at that point. That’s the equivalent argument and Russia is right its one thing to give weapons to a proxy state to use against the combatants inside and for the battle in that proxy state. That is equal to Chinese and Russian weapons INSIDE Vietnam or inside Iraq or Syria it something else to provide weapons and program the strike into a totally separate nation outside the proxy state. That is very much a recognized act of war. Russia is a war with Ukraine as long as the West doesn’t strike Russia directly it’s a proxy war, as soon as you loft missiles using American data, American techs and American equipment it doesn’t matter if they were launched from Poland or ukeland it’s an act of war from the USA period as recognized by the laws of war. If we want to declare war on Russia then fine get Congress to do so. Russia is saying if you hit our homeland with US missiles be ready to get hit back, take them at their word unlike the North Koreans or the Ukraine Russia can hit the mainland USA with ease they have strategic platforms that are not nuclear and also cargo container launchers they could put on any container ship and lob them from 1500 miles out. The USA took down our strategic radars years ago from the Canadian Arctic lines and also our East and West coastal radars cold war over let’s save some cash for more welfare spending was exactly the reasons given.