"A consolidation of U.S. elite interests has taken shape in the Russo-Ukrainian war, with a network of Western venture capitalists, high-tech start-ups, NATO military advisers, and CIA intelligence officials reaping material or strategic benefit from the conflict.
This has led not only to a digital transformation of the battlefield, but also to an environment in which Ukrainian military intelligence and security services trained in tactics such as drone warfare have reportedly proliferated in diverse theaters across Africa and the Middle East, including Mali, Sudan and Syria.
This clandestine proxy force may offer some indication, outside of the profit motive that drives endless war at its core, as to why Western hawks insist on continuing a proxy war with a nuclear power despite logical certainty that this could provoke an exchange that exterminates vast swaths of humanity."