I was born in 1950, and I couldn’t agree with you more.
Proxy wars are one thing. Stupid, costly, but the big boys stay in the silos.
This is a DIRECT AND DELIBERATE provocation against a vital Russian national interest. There’s no excuse for it, none at all.
There may be ties of some sort between Ukraine leaders and prominent Democrats, Hillary being one. Hints along this line sometimes show up in stories about the the Russia hoax. It’s murky like everything else involving Clinton and that story but if there’s something to it that could explain the odd willingness to blunder into a war with Russia.