The popular fiction is that the American elites are intending to war against the Russian elites when really all they want is to get rid of their respective publics and then party with one another afterwards with everyone else dead and gone.
Until you understand why there's an effort to destroy the Christian productive class you will be forever confused.
If making war by deception the very first thing is to confuse who the players are and what the goal actually is.
The real goal is to empty the land of it's peoples so it can be declared the new improved zion.
There's a book about that, it's called the old testament.