I assume you mean my reference to “U.S. imperialism” in Vietnam. I think that is a fair term for the U.S. sending a half million occupation troops to fight there, continuing the French Indochina War after they were forced to withdraw their colonial troops. Of course that was also part of our Cold War campaign against “international communism” — but whatever our intent it put us squarely on the wrong side of the Vietnamese struggle for “national liberation” … in the eyes of most Vietnamese anyway.
There is a useful term — “proxy war” — that can be used in cases like the Ukraine Conflict where powerful nations use smaller nations or regional combatants against competing / opponent big nations. But while U.S. / NATO support for Ukraine is certainly in part a proxy war, for Ukrainians suffering a bloody invasion from Russia it is also a national liberation fight to maintain their national survival.
That is why I emphasize that Ukrainian nationalists are both using and being used by the West. The Ukrainians have learned, like the Zionists did before them, that to succeed in creating a serious state of their own they need to fight wars against their nearest and most immediate threat, but they also absolutely initially need support of some great powers.
If Ukraine is truly victorious in this war, in future it may well prove a rather troublesome (and authoritarian) ally that follows its own distinct national interests, like Turkey or Hungary. Indeed, it may even develop its own “imperial” ambitions in the Black Sea area or towards a future disintegrating Russia. On the other hand, if it is frustrated in reclaiming all its claimed “sovereign Ukrainian lands,” and partially defeated by Russia, it can come to fester and even hate the West for “abandoning” it. It is certainly too early to do any more than merely guess at such possibilities.
Is it inevitable that we may see a Russian nuclear weapon used in Ukraine, otherwise if Russia is now in a losing situation, and sees it's border security, it's national security interest, and it's future Russian homeland security ultimately slipping away because of how far it has all gone now ???
Would Russia feel highly threatened in the future after going all in on it's bid to over take Ukraine in a hot war, but loses that war just across it's border ???
Will Russia be terrified of a future empowered Ukraine on it's border if it loses, otherwise that it feels would then continue a long drawn out war or war of attrition for the purposes of weakening the Russian federation internally or externally due to what has happened now ???
How deep do the implications of this entire thing go now one wonder's ??
Will Ukraine peacefully send a message to Russia that Ukraine has no need in further escalation of this war even though it was attacked, and the message is that Ukraine should never be taken over by it's Russian neighbor, and that peace should be restored after both sides step back to lick and heal their wounds in which they have both received in the foolish war ?? Will both sides have learned a very important lesson here, and can it be resolved peacefully and with dignity for both somehow ??
If Ukraine were somehow to win in Ukraine, and a truce is cemented between the two because of that win or maybe a stalemate happens, then it should mark the end of the war forever, and hopefully without any further escalation, so will both sides stop the madness of War then or not ??
Both sides need to be mediated by powerful neutral peace promoting forces that somehow both would still have great respect for still, and all in hopes of stopping the madness before it goes nuclear.
Not seeking peace talks constantly with the aggressor is a huge mistake in my opinion. Feeding the lust for war is a huge mistake in my opinion.
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