Consider the fact that if Trump didn’t find a reason to fire off the massive stocks of missile interceptors in a stupid, pointless war than Putin would have ZERO leverage right now as his military is collapsing.
As it stands now though with ballistic missile interceptor stocks largely depleted russia can now try to engineer a political situation where Ukraine is politically limited from counter attacking with their ground army while russia scraps together ballistic missiles that should be in museums to lob at Ukraine and threaten Europe with.
Do you think this was completely a coincidence?
And China just sits and watches the two nations it’s been manipulating burn out their capabilities in pointless conflicts.