re: No, we should not send our military to Ukraine. But can we speak the truth?

OP, you are proceeding from several flawed assumptions and your conclusions are dead wrong.

Russia is fighting because its neighbor, and arguably a traditional part of its territory, is falling under the spell of a globalist cabal. This is the cabal of Rome, Paris, Westminster, Windsor, William Tecumseh Sherman, Disney, and George Soros. It is the vanguard of transhumanism and of gender theory.

"Bad for the economy"- that is just such a myth. The USSR didn't fail because of its flawed economic system. It actually did damned well in light of the 9,000,000 or so lives sacrificed in WWII.

It was easy to cling to the belief that we were on the right side of the great east-vs.-west divide in 1970 or 1980. That fantasy is no longer tenable. We've seen Lena Dunham and she is all of us.