This young girl below seems to show more geopolitical insight than the US State Department. Ukraine needed to act as a demilitarized buffer state between NATO and Russia, and the US-driven 2014 coup plus ongoing extensive training and rearmament of the Ukrainian military, together with its integration into the NATO command structures, turned that buffer into an existential threat. There are historical parallels for Russia’s response, as the young girl so eloquently states.
Either the US State Department is staffed by utter morons, or this was an intentional provocation against Russia “poking the bear” to engage it in a conflict that would severely weaken it and provide a cases belli for the West to engage in outright economic warfare against Russia. The poking worked, but the results are not what the US State Department expected. Russia is methodically winning the war, 7/8ths of the world has refused to sanction Russia, and its economy is stabilizing along with its strengthening currency. The “weakening” is happening to Europe and to the US to a lesser degree, much more than Russia. The global non-aligned movement also seems to have been energized by the US attempted bullying of nations into sanctioning Russia, even in India.
This young lady has a brilliant career ahead of her in the Chinese foreign service!