Do I think Ukraine started the war? Hell no i dont.
The fact that Trump is sucking up to putin should make american patriots vomit.
History, particularly recent history isn't a matter of opinion, its a matter of fact. The status quo ante was Ukraine as a functional and legitimate democracy prior to the 2014 Maidan, the proximate spark of the war.
American patriots are people who care about American interests not Ukrainian interests. We got led into this war by a bunch of Ukrainian ultranationalists haunting the Biden white house and lining Biden's bank account courtesy of Burisma. Doesn't sound like American interests to me. Very Ukrainian patriotic, for sure. Proud patriots who wanted to cast off the grip of Russia and secure a sovereign western Ukrainian state with self determination for everyone west of the Dnipro and for everyone to the east well, like I said, not an American concern
We're weakening our geopolitical position by antagonizing Russia when it could serve as an aligned power against China, our actual rival. We're bogging down the entire western world in costly war while China expands its tendrils across Asia and Africa. And worse yet, we're losing our proxy war. Losing influence in the Sahel to Russia let alone China. We aligned South Africa and India and a swathe of South America against us as we failed to bully them into an economic blockade and instead sabotaged the petrodollar as a reserve currency by doing a rug pull with its inviolate nature. American taxpayers shouldn't have to give a shit about some eastern european slog where the poorest country in europe is a fighting a dumb revolution to overthrow the democracy they used to have and put a dictator in place- but when we're propping up literal
Nazi war criminals and undermining our own geopolitical interests at the same time, actual American patriots should be calling for a new round of Nuremberg trials