i'm sure this was a pretext for the invasion, but i doubt even a single person thought it would "work" but the point of all these wars is to use proxies as battering rams to weaken china russia and iran so we can keep the empire going if you accept this (tankie) position, then everything we do makes sense, and you can easily predict what's going to happen we sent the ukraine's into kursk to kill russians, that's it
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