The goal of all the provocation of Russia a prelude to dealing with China but Russia and China fully understand what is going on and are responding.
I guess the real war is all this sensational propaganda to sell China and Russia as failures, Iran and North Korea as losers and so on.
Humanity is divorced from reality it seeks a feel-good fantasy world where I’m OK and my enemies real or imagined are inferior to me.
I see. In what way did the 20,000 Poles shot in the head by the Kremlin at Katyn “provoke” Moscow? History shows us over and over that Russia’s neighbors merely existing is all the “provocation” that Russian chauvinists need to mass murder them. Recent events in Ukraine fit precisely into this history.