This a long, but excellent article that everyone should read:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-american-origins-of-the-russo-ukrainian-war/
I read it. A stinking pile of garbage. Nothing “maximalist” about Ukrainians not wanting their children to die, again, in KGB/FSB torture chambers or resisting their cities being genocidally erased by the Russian Army. Shame on any so-called “conservative” who belittles and demeans Ukrainians struggle for the entire existence of their nation.
.......Ukraine is being depicted as a “moral crusade”.....
We have seen this before—in Vietnam, the Gulf War, Kosovo, the Iraq War, and Afghanistan.
The watchword for Americans now is: Don’t be fooled again.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-american-origins-of-the-russo-ukrainian-war/