you know how you have a bunch of random facts youve collected in your head, and you come across one that makes all of the others snap together into a cohesive narrative?

Suddenly, tonight, I know that the Pentagon hired the Rand Corporation to figure out how to start a civil war in Ukraine, and what would cause Russia to get involved.

They wanted a war with Russia. But there was no way they would ever get approval from the American People. So they paid the most advanced thinktank in the world to tell them how they could start a war without looking like they started a war.