this is a woefully ignorant comment. The war began long before 2/24/22 with a CIA sponsored coup in 2014 that ousted a duly elected government and, in its place, installed something more palatable to John McCain and Vickie Nuland.
Uh, no. The CIA did not stage a coup in Ukraine. The people rioted and overthrew a Russian stooge.
It is most interesting that picking a date or data set boundaries changes how one calculates. This is extremely evident in the twin hysterics of the recent past -- climate change and the pandemic. Both were about data boundaries and taxonomic manipulations.
Just so, when anyone states the conflict/color-revolution/special-miliary-operatipon/war began on date X rather than date Y, the conclusions will different, as the old "blind men describe an elephant" tale.Seeing a reality as differing realities does not clarify.
This is the point of the climate change gaming of taxpayers, with the goal of "more money." This was the game of the most recent pandemic and its actual mortality of less than 1/10th of one percent, the goal being money. More money is the theme.
So is it as hundreds of billions -- funded by increasing US debt -- flow to this war. And others, as one thinks of Samantha Powers of USAID games around the world. More money, more control. And all within the largest context of a casino in which enormous bets are being wagered. Losses are guaranteed.