Agree. I also agree with your earlier argument that this intention of bringing down Russia as to weaken China's position vis-a-vis the US is what is actually at root here. Historically speaking this goes back to Cheney's Defense Planning Guidance of 1992 when US grand strategy went from maintaining military capabilities in the context of Soviet/Warsaw Pact capabilities, to maintaining and expanding military capabilities in order to maintain permanent global dominance against any conceivable challenger . . .