you link to a massive report by - ahem - rand - a dubious source of its own, and don't even bother to explain your point or who this adds anything to back it up. more like you google your position and just linked the first thing that confirmed your bias. you've gone from comparing Ukraine to Afghanistan to moving the goalposts to just calling it a proxy war. your argument keeps falling apart and changing.

if you had an argument to make, you would, rather than relying on something you don't understand and can't explain to do it or you.