I should have phrased it differently but I was just speculating. I think it's _possible_ the war is "partly motivated" by getting Russia more under the control of western regulations which includes copyright laws.
I don't think it's a wild conspiracy theory because Russia has been labeled a rogue state for some time and the US has an interest in regime change. It's not official policy but enough people have warned the US that regime change is a bad idea, including the NYT, that I don't think it's easily dismissed. I think it's quite possible there are western corporate and regulatory interests in having a Russian regime that cooperates with their interests more. But I can see how this is an extremely cynical take and I didn't mean to suggest that was the only reason for a war.
The US is supporting its ally in a war because it's being invaded by an adversary. IP laws do not fit anywhere in this. You might as well say the US started a proxy war to help hedgies stop the GME moon.
The US didn't put boots on the ground to help the UK in the Falklands even when it would have made things much easier. That doesn't mean the US and the UK were not allies or that the US did not help in other ways.
Nobody said they were however NATO member does mean ally and we're pretty lukewarm on that prospect. There could certainly be another alliance made outside of NATO that would make them an ally, there could be, but there isn't. We have friendly relations with Ukraine and support a faction of their government but we're pretty cagey with our military support.
> The US didn't put boots on the ground to help the UK in the Falklands
The UK is, and was, a NATO member. (Indeed, a major factor that led Argentina to think that they could take the Falklands was the reorganization of the UK Navy around its role in NATO which compromised it's capacity for independent operations.)
No, waging a proxy war and vying for regime change for a geopolitical rival are not the same as supporting an ally. IP laws fit into a key part of US hegemony via Russian digital providers being accountable to US law enforcement.
is that really a conspiracy theory though? it is fairly clear what the ultimate goals the US and Russia have for each other are - Russia wants the US out of the picture so they can have free reign in Europe, and the US wants Russia broken down into two dozen irrelevant ethnostates they'll get to indirectly control
I think the goal of Russia (or more specifically Putin's inner circle) is basically great power roleplay, and as a part of that roleplay, they have to have some kind of grandiose geopolitical objective.
When it comes to actual real power, economic, soft, military, or whatever, Russia has a smaller GDP than Italy. If you imagine Italy trying to push the US 'out of the picture' so they could have 'free reign' in Europe, you can see how ridiculous Russia's 'geopolitics' is.
What's really happening is that Putin's domestic power and legitimacy stems from his ability to be a plausible cosplay Bismark while keeping the kleptocrats that are robbing the Russian people happy.
If push comes to anything close to a shove, there's simply no way Russia can contend with any of its neighbors, all of whom are just way more powerful (India, China, Japan, South Korea) or in actual world-leading blocs (EU members, NATO members, etc). That won't change until the Russian economy and society itself changes, and that's impossible without substantial reassessment and reorganization that would undoubtedly include the end of Putin's regime.
who will give those microstates massive loans they would need to stay afloat?
who will fund the election campaigns and favorable media coverage for the agreeable candidates and parties?
whose arms will they buy and whose military bases will they build to defend themselves against each other and/or what little is left of Russia and/or China?
whose companies will get contracts for resource extraction and favorable conditions to operate there?
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the collapse of Russia would be a greater boon to the US than the WWII was, and had Russia been a benevolent democracy, it would've been at least halfway there by now
He's dismissing it because the parent talking about proxy war waged by the US when the one starting it was Russia. He deserves all the dismissing that he gets
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