“In order to save the village, we had to destroy it.”
Russia started the war.
When? Russia invaded in 2014 after the US/NATO engineered coup. They annexed Crimea without any real opposition. The war has been going on for 8 years.
This war is being fought almost entirely on Ukrainian soil. In the process, the country is being reduced to rubble. Ukraine was a poor country before the war with a per capita GDP of $14,300 just $100 more than Cuba. Zelensky has said it will take $1 trillion to rebuild the country.
The more we prolong the war, largely at the expense of the US taxpayer, the greater the destruction and death. The people who pay the ultimate price for proxy wars are those fighting it. We should be promoting no-condition negotiations and a cease fire rather than sending tanks and maybe jet fighters.