Virtually all global politics involve the US, so yes, the discussion has to include US imperialism. It wasn’t like the US was hands-off until Russia invaded out of nowhere and then that’s when the US decided to get involved.

You’re naive if you think the Wolfowitz doctrine and its ideologies have simply gone away with the Bush administration. This has been the blueprint for US foreign policy since the end of the cold war.

Yes, we did hear a lot about Ukraine getting invaded and then they got invaded, but the trouble didn’t start like a couple weeks before the invasion. Funny that you claim that I’m merely assuming I know where your information is coming from when you keep repeating US mainstream media talking points over and over. Following your logic, North Korea would have dropped multiple nukes on South Korea and Japan by now. You hear a lot about China conducting military drills or encroaching on air space, but you won’t hear the same about the US even though they do the same. Is it because you can trust the US? Is it because the US owns all airspace on Earth and thus can go where they please?

“Fuck it” in this context doesn’t mean “I got off the wrong side of the bed this morning, I think I’ll go invade a country today”, it means “I believe I’ve run out of options and I will do this out of desperation”.