Whatever you may have been told, Russia, perhaps now the world’s leading thermonuclear weapons power, believes that it is fighting the United States, Great Britain and NATO in a proxy war, one that only foolish, uninformed people in “the West” refer to as “the war between Ukraine and Russia.” Considering that the United States has, in one year, directly deployed an acknowledged $112 billion of weapons and materiel into Ukraine, an amount larger than the entire annual military budget of Russia, and that all other NATO military, logistical, and financial aid has been in addition to that, that belief seems more than justified.