A proxy war is an armed conflict between countries, with at least one of the instigators not directly involved in actual hostilities. Since Russia instigated the current war by invading Ukraine and is involved, the war currently being fought is not by definition a proxy war. That said, American companies are paying around $1 billion a year to Russia’s state-owned nuclear agency to buy the fuel that generates more than half of the United States’ emissions-free energy. It is one of the most significant remaining flows of money from the United States to Russia, and it continues despite strenuous efforts among U.S. allies to sever economic ties with Moscow. That does seem to qualify as a bit of “lunacy.” The US relationship with thugs like Putin and Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud is, indeed, troubling to me.
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