“Russian intervention” has virtually zero impact on my life
Russia constantly sabotages the west in any way they can. Sometimes it's obvious, like setting things on fire, other times it's a bit more covert, like assassinating a political enemy or an up-and-coming pro-west politician. Yet other times, it's very discreet, like when they organised "green groups" that lobbied against nuclear power in Germany and got the government to shut down the plants. As soon as that happened, the main people behind these "green groups" ended up with prominent positions in Rosneft, etc.
Then, of course, there's all the chaos they're sowing. They have whole bot farms designed to spread misinformation, they pay influencers to "just ask questions", for example, about things like vaccines.
then there would start being questions asked about why we were spending such ridiculous sums of money on the military instead of using it to actually help people
I'm assuming that by "we" you mean "the US"? If so: the US is not spending that much, relative to the GDP. It's something around 3% of the federal budget.
Hilariously, something like 15% of the federal budget goes to healthcare. You know, the one that is not free and universal and mostly "private".
I pray for a time when western libs finally understand that the US government is not their friend and never will be, and also not to trust it to tell us who our enemies are
Just trust literally every country that got out from underneath the russian boot. Russia is the enemy of the free world. Always has been.