The US has been poking the bear for decades. It's no accident. The bear is the bear. It will attack. Putin is a dictator. But the US has been trying to provoke him it seems to me. Not trying to make peace. War and the threat of war makes the MIC a lot of money. When they USSR fell military spending tanked. I remember it when I was growing up. This MIC needs global conflict to maintain its profits. The Ukrainian people are fodder in these elites war. So are the Russians. Putin and Zelensky are manipulated. The plebs are manipulated. It's a nasty game.