Russia begins moving troops into eastern Ukraine

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

I'm going to throw this out there as a one off, and I'm just engaging in some rumination here so please don't take offense, but I wonder if this won't be good for the US long term. We seem to do much better when we have an external enemy to fixate on. I certainly lament the circumstances (I have an internet friend in Ukraine and I haven't heard from her in several days despite messaging her) and don't see it as as a fair tradeoff but I wonder if this won't restore some national purpose now that some of us are realizing for the first time just how dangerous and dictatorial much of the world is. Those of us who grew up in the Cold War know this, but most millennials, and everyone in Gen Z+, have zero idea what this type of national threat looks or feels like.