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Should have lasted weeks with what result? With "Russia takes Ukraine with little cost" result?
Think about game theory here. If 'do war' action is a profitable strategy, any rational player WILL play the 'do war' action again and again. Eventually it will be played against you or you ally.
How do you solve (obtain pareto-optimal solution) prisoner dilemma game? By modifying reward matrix and converting it into trivial game in which cooperation is always better than defecting. You do that by making defecting action more costly.
So the US should just fund this war forever? What would you do?
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1 . About the 'forever' part:
What makes you think this war would last forever? Russia is weak compared to US.
2 . About the 'should' part:
Deal so far was "USA is global policeman and protects NATO countries; NATO countries pay the policeman by buying and holding US bonds/US dollars in their treasuries".
USA was not doing policing by the kindness of their heart lol. It was a transaction.
And if you are paid for a service you should fulfill your part. Unless US wants to stop that deal - which is fair but in that case US should not 'suggest' NATO countries to use&hold dollars anymore.
My intuition is that being a global policeman and collecting a tribute from half the word for that service is a pretty good place to be. So its probably in US best interest to maintain that position.
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