If you want to go to war against Russia, be my guest.
I don’t understand this obsession with using our troops as mercenaries.
If you spend any meaningful time in that part of the world, you would know the only country interested in war is Russia.
They are the nosy, noisiest neighbor not just militarily with their MASSIVE attention-whoring nuclear mock drills right on borders, but in wreaking cyberspace havoc also, and yes political meddling/pestering their neighbors is a fact!
Putin has a vested interest in keeping WWIII prospects alive, mainly to distract his people from their stalled domestic progress and his government’s rampant corruption. His country has mastered the art of hacking and bombing, but the art of free government and economics? No. Not so much.
Putting a base up is not starting war. It’s like building a tall fence or an alarm system to get your loud, psychologically unstable neighbor to shut up and stay inside.
A guard dog.
And sometimes it requires a neighborhood effort*