>>509547616 (OP)What is the point of any of our wars from the American perspective?
The US doesn't get to vote on wars. If that were the case we wouldn't have had most of them.
The President, and as time has gone on, less and less, the Congress decides if we are going to have a war.
The Russians are in the same position.
Captured by some (however you define it) synergy of a nations ownership class, and it's state apparatus.
If you think like a bitch you are never going to be able to understand this shit dawg.
You have to shed all the bullshit, all the patriotism, all the allegiance and culture, and look at it like you would the nations on a globe in a real time strategy game. Competing interests, alliances, economic realities.
You can't put your personal ego into it, you have to look at it absolutely dispassionately, and you will be able to understand what the world actually is.