[extropy]

USA hopefully learned their lesson (over the several proxy wars). Now will Russia?

Yes Putin is the dictator, but the problem started when the people allowed him to become one. Now his "strongman" ethos does not allow him anything but push on. Trump would probably do similar things given time. Buy US was sane enough to push him out when they still could.

Also I think it's somewhat human nature to go help the side you sympathize with when an conflict occurs. We just need to learn to be more civilized about this, throwing army at the problem has very poor track record.

[the_mar]

It's not quite the same though. US war in Vietnam or any of the -stan countries was pretty far from home and pretty easy to disassociate from.

Russia invading Ukraine is like US invading Mexico, it's not as easy for people to swallow the propaganda