Don't know if you're trolling, or making a joke but I'll bite just once: I believe it doesn't matter, that Russia was going to invade whether the US wanted to stop or encourage them, whether they were displeased or excited or even if they were indifferent to the matter altogether. There are a lot of people who remove any agency from Putin or Russia and talk like Joe Biden himself texted all the various Generals in the Russian Army instructing them to invade and that Putin just ran with it out of embarrassment.
You believe US motivation “doesn’t matter” here - why? Because it has no influence over the situation? In that case, idk what we’re even arguing about. If however the world’s dominant imperial superpower *does* have some influence, then its motivation and goals *do* matter. Right?
