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Let's see it unravel first before you try and poo-pooh any connections.
I hate to bring the bad news to the table, but the US isn't the ONLY country on the planet with foreign interference capabilities.
Have you read The Foundations of Geopolitics by Aleksander Dugin?
You should.
Russophobia led people to accept Ukrainian nazification puppetry by the US to force war on Russia, just as Iranophobia was always a march to this war. That a Russian wrote a book on geopolitcs doesn't change the pure evil forces coordinated on diminishing Russia that exists without addressing how to defend against them.
This Hungary/Orban funding for evil is serious, explains GOP admiration, and last minute political rally from Vance. Interesting that in the rally Vance held, he tried calling Trump live on speakerphone, but it went to voicemail. Trump doesn't really care about GOP/CPAC/Heritage.
In Ukraine, Russia is the aggressor. In Iran, it's the United States. Blaming the war in Ukraine on Russophobia is about as reasonable as blaming the war in Iran on their chants of 'death to America'. You can dress it up any way you want but at the end of the day they are both empires doing the shitty stuff that empires do. Let's not pretend like either is innocent.
Categorically unacceptable to not see the pure corruption of Democracy in Ukraine and Europe that manufactured this war on Russia. Subjugation is truly hopeless when full denial of it.
Nice Russian talking point as long as you're willing to pretend Russia is a victim instead of an expansionist empire.
It's a bad comparison, as Ukraine/Russia is functionally a civil war over a border that didn't matter until the USSR dissolved. Iran/US is a proxy war over Israel's expansion into Lebanon.
Much like with the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent genocidal border wars, the fight between Ukraine and Russia has been manufactured by Western political interests seeking to run both countries down. That's why the US is sending money and weapons to both countries.
By contrast, we're not standing up Iran's military.
Ukraine and Russia is not a civil war by any measure that isn't pro-Imperialist. Russia is an old school empire. Even most of the territory inside proper Russia isn't Russian. The real Russian core is Moscow - St.Petersburg and the surrounding areas. Much like the Baltic States the USSR subjugated Ukraine. But Ukrainians had wanted independence and even (wrongly) welcomed Nazi invaders at first thinking they were going to get independence thanks to them (very stupid idea, sure). The point is that Ukrainians see themselves as cousins of Russians but not as Russian. And Russia is the country that invaded and initiated this current war, they are the aggressors. Calling this a "civil war" is pure Russian propaganda.
The entire conflict in the Donbas was driven by the hyped up divided between "ethnic" Ukrainians and Russians. Hell, the Maidan Revolution was explicitly a civil conflict between Russian allied Ukrainians and Ukrainian Nationalists.
Moscow and St. Petersburg are farther apart than Estonia and Poland. These have always been distinct power centers within Russia.
So much of the discussion of this war is totally America-Brained, where you cannot see subpopulations and cultural carve-outs that aren't made explicit by national borders. Nevermind these borders are themselves constantly in flux and contingent on the political alignments of the local ruling class.
The Banderite nationalists, Makhnovshchina, Ukrainian Leninists, Lypyns'kyi-ists... these are all distinct historical factions often in armed conflict with one another. None of them are representative of the current EU-friendly corporate conglomeration governing the country.
Zelensky isn't a nationalist in any meaningful sense. Neither was Poroshenko. They've both been happy enough to auction off Ukrainian sovereignty for foreign investment and aid.
There is a strain of Ukrainian nationalism that sees itself as distinct from Russians and a strain of pan-Slavic Ukrainianism that sees these groups as overlapping. And then there are non-Slavic Ukrainians that don't fit either demographic (Jewish Ukrainians, most famously, eat a lot of shit, but so do Roma and Turks and Arabs, etc, etc).
All of these fractures are ripe for political wedging and other fuckery. And that's exactly what international business has exploited since the collapse of the USSR. Everyone's alienated from one another. Mass media is screaming that you're being robbed by your "foreign" neighbors. And weapons have flooded the country to make the induced paranoia of a material threat.
Force war on Russia. The west made Russia invade Ukraine. Russia was like, no, we don't want to invade a sovereign nation. The west was like, oh yeah well you better. All because russophobia. That must be it.