Sounds like Russian leadership should have known they're not a match for Americans. A costly misjudgement.

> Ukraine is a hive of American, British and German activity near Russian border. That is–long run–a problem for Russia. How does that sound?

Like a bad reason to go to war. Same here.

I'm not justifying the war. I'm just saying the reasons are–or at least reasonably can be–more complicated than one dimension.