Keeping Putin away from the Polish border. Depriving Putin of 40+ million new population and valuable mineral and industrial interests. He would be immensely more powerful and dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qS6J-WbTD8&t=3s
Before judgment is passed, how about listen to the above?
Watch “Ukraine is on Fire”—— https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html
How many YEARS have we been listening and watching lies from the very people about many things that are important? Noow these very same people are unanimously pro-Ukraine. They flipped the switch from Covid to Ukraine, just as gas prices go through the roof, the economy tanks, and all of the news about the EUA non-vaccines is out for anyone to see who cares, they find something to distract us. I hate that people are dying in Eastern Europe. I also hate that people were murdered to keep the world locked down for a real virus, but a fake pandemic.
Using the Cold War NATO strategic planning matrix you are correct. That template was valid when there was a Soviet Union whose entire reason to be was predicated on the destruction of all other forms of government Now it is Russia acting in a traditional manner in it’s border lands and in reaction to what seems to be a far reaching strategy of encirclement by Brussels. All of which is of marginal US interest. Our vital interest ate in the big domestic issues of immigration, national economy, energy independence, and electronic media thought control by censorship. Foreign areas of real national interest focus on keeping foreign adversarys out of the west ern hemisphere and a massive struggle with China whose national ambitions embrace key elements that are existentially hostile to the US.
Not to mention gaining valuable agricultural land.