A HypnoToad speculation.

Given the following:

Trump, Manafort, and others prior connections to and attempted manipulation of Ukraine with regards to the US election.

The impeachment that resulted from that.

The slow-rolling of investigation and prosecutions over both the Republican election fuckery and the Jan. 6th insurrection attempt.

The well anticipated Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the surprising and effective (with CIA training aid) resistance to it, along with the abysmal performance of the Russian armed forces.

The astoundingly rapid and coordinated worldwide response to that invasion with both effective sanctions and significant military support for Ukraine.

Therefore: Could this be a very deep set-up by many western democracies to take care of both the long-term antagonism from Russia towards them, and to identify and clean out many of the right wing allies recruited in both their countries and the US to try and subvert those democracies and turn them towards authoritarianism/fascism? IOW. Did Trumpism’s near success scare much of the world into a coordinated plan of action to preserve the United States as the main force of democratic stability?

If so, and I’d like to be optimistic about humanity’s competence here, I would expect to see the pace of indictments, prosecutions, and the like to very rapidly increase as soon as the Ukrainian war is resolved. Right now, our political enemies are still exposing themselves/taking sides.