• kava@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    American goals in Ukraine are

    • make Russia pay dearly for every inch of land they take in Ukraine

    • use this opportunity to give a nice cash injection to our defense contractors

    • gather as much intel & data on both Russia & the modern battlefield in general. Sort of like the Spanish Civil War before WW2. A playground to test out new technologies

    These goals have already been accomplished. It’s been a great couple years in terms of hurting Russia for cheap.

    We want to prolong this war as long as possible. A Ukrainian victory would be just as bad as a Ukrainian loss. It’s why we modulate our aid carefully. Like Chomsky was saying before his stroke - “we will fight them to the last Ukrainian”

    I think a lot of people get blinded by propaganda in the moment. Even people who retroactively would be able to see it just fine (try and find someone who believes Iraq was a justified war) strongly believe the party lines.

    Reality is American interests and Ukrainian interests are not aligned.