Respectfully

> "USAID"

USAID is _gone_. That's no longer a boogie man.

> "many hotel TVs in Europe today and find RT—only to be greeted by a literal black screen."

RT is not Russian news, it is Russian foreign influence. You might as well complain about the lack of VOA in Russia.

> "Then you have Russia’s security concerns. We’ve been arming Ukraine since the 2014 coup d'etat, despite the fact that NATO was literally designed as an anti-Russian club."

It wasn't a coup d'etat. That is a profound Russophile interpretation. The Ukrainian parliament voted 386–0 to reinstate the 2004 Constitution of Ukraine. Yanukovych may not have been assisted by Western powers but his undoing was overreach by Russia and his unpopularity. Russia seems allergic to any form of diplomacy that doesn't involve force and domination, which is its undoing.

> "US is already militarily outclassed"

That is quite a reach. It's a hugely asymmetrical conflict and one of the major problems is the civilian damage. One could say the premise of the action was unsound and unlikely to succeed. But part of the problem is that, unlike Russia targeting civilian utilities and non-military targets in Ukraine, even with this administration there is a reluctance to target the Iranian people (thank god).

> "hypersonic missiles which we don't know how to produce or defend from"

The US both knows how to produce and defend from these. That is why Ukraine wants to trade drone defense for Patriot missiles.

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Every country should be much less eager for military conflict, including the US. Russia should immediately leave Ukraine's territorial borders and respect it's borders back to the Friendship treaty of 1997, since they violated the Kharkiv pact.