>>512145662 (OP)
no joke. To provoke this war.
I am pro-Ukraine, but the real game here is not Russia versus Ukraine. It's USA against Europe.
The USA wanted Europe, the largest market for gas, to be separated from Russian energy in order to develop the market itself. The higher energy prices will force a migration of EU industry to the US, which at the same time has created multi-billion dollar incentives for foreign companies to dump their energy prices.
The US is in an existential crisis and they are robbing Europe to survive. Ukraine was the best way to draw the arrogant Europeans into a conflict with their pseudo-morality.
There are guys who call themselves think tanks and they develop long-term strategies and the ukraine scenario with the european economy has certainly been high on the agenda for 30 years.