US weapons, US intel, US alliances and organizations... I doubt Russia looks at it and thinks "Oh, OK, the US is totally not involved. They're our friends!"

Even when we're not actively sending troops, we're busy making enemies for the next war...

Tell this to the loved ones left behind by those killed in "not war".

They've just off-shored the lives lost. It's not any different than off-shoring manufacturing and poisoning some third world country with the waste chemicals and runoff instead of the homeland.