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Aug 6·edited Aug 6Liked by Andrew Korybko

"...peace might be possible..."

How hard can it be:

1) re-instate the 1990, re-confirmed in '96 — NEUTRALITY:

Article IX of the 1990 Declaration of the Ukraine's State Sovereignty the Ukraine "...solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs." This intention was repeated and confirmed as a commitment from joining any military alliance in the Ukraine's new-and-improved Constitution of 1996.

What's not to like?

As Lavrov continues to affirm:

“When asked in 2023 if Russia still recognizes the sovereignty of Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov answered, “We recognized the sovereignty of Ukraine back in 1991 on the basis of the Declaration of Independence, which Ukraine adopted when it withdrew from the Soviet Union…”

(https://www.thenation.com/article/world/broken-promises-nato-ukraine-war-diplomacy/)

2) DE-NAZIFICATION (it really isn't too complicated)

3) DE-MILITARISATION, as agreed already, including all the numbers — how many tanks, how many planes, how many (NOT nazi-style wannabe militias) personnel — with Turkey's help, in Ankara, February-March 2022 —

It's really NOT TOO hard!?!

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What kind of war does America not want to see. That is the question. It might simply be the case that the US wants to avoid a quasi warlike situation where one party to the current conflict bumps off another’s head of state, senior political leader, scientist, etc, only for that other party to retaliate in spades. The other kind of war is fought more conventionally, with rockets/missiles launched from land, sea, beneath the waves, air and space, drones, EW and the like. My guess is that the policy-making warmongers in both the US administration and deep state are divided only in the kind of war they want to wage against Russia.

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Aug 6·edited Aug 6Liked by Andrew Korybko

"What kind of war does America not want to see."

What on earth has that got to do with it; why the hell or in God's name should it have anything to do with America?

"That is the question."

It most certainly SHOULD NOT be, and most fortunately has, as a question of any relevance whatsoever, been re-prioritised by Russia's outstanding success on the battlefield of the Ukraine.

"... they want to wage against Russia."

Then they should have the courage of their convictions to step up and say so — declare it — rather than hiding behind vassal states while manipulating and coercing the rest of the world to accept them as purveyors and administrators of some 'rules based order' which they are above and relate to with impunity, as they see fit, according to whatever political manifestation, e.g. Trump or Biden, they feel suits them at any particular time. Arbitrary?

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Where have you been the last 60’years? When genocidal Jews tell Western leaders to jump, they say, “Off what cliff?”

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It is what it is and we've got what we got.

It's all a question of attitude: you make of it what you will.

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Some high-level cliched word salad. Keep trying for a clear thought.

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OK, try this for clarity: if you see Jews everywhere, they will defeat you.

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America, in its effort to bottle up and ultimately destroy Russia, has a vested interest in keeping Ukraine at war. Obama's coup in 2014 led the Nazis in Kiev to think they could destroy Russia's fleet and conquer its imagined enemy.

Russia's goal of preventing the LGBTQ+++ insanity and the West's drive to eliminate Christianity from ruining their nation has led Putin to make a desperate last-ditch attempt to prevent the 4th Reich from conquering the world.

Ukraine remains the most corrupt nation in Europe and its destruction would be the best thing that could happen to the Baltic states.

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Aug 6Liked by Andrew Korybko

More to the point- if Ukraine can pull the assassination off, then they are by no means out of options for escalation and terror.

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Aug 6Liked by Andrew Korybko

SHOCK: US Neocon “diplomat” Ukraine coup plotter “retired” (was fired) on Mar 5 (days before an Ukraine terrorist attack on Moscow civilians) and US policy begins to show sanity.

https://x.com/kanekoathegreat/status/1765092971001848154?s=46&t=AuwkS69LUgCQwbNTQq8gww

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Not wanting (nuclear) war is not the same as wanting peace.

Sustained low-level conflict would suit quite well as long as the Empire sees no direct blow-back.

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Andrew, I hope you are correct but I think the more realistic interpretation is that forces within the US ruling establishment understand that they have to pivot to the Indo-Pacific and confront the US’s peer competitor per John Mearsheimer. However, I am skeptical about that interpretation as well. I think the neocon wing of the US ruling class is too obsessed with Russia and Central Asia a la Brzezinski to give up on neutering Russia. Also the USA ruling class has had, has, and will have its eyes on any oil-rich country. (See Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Libya, etc.) Big oil plays an outsize role in the ruling class. Along with people from the CFR, big oil connected people have been in and out of key positions in government.

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This title & this story belong to the most primitive and most satanic propaganda that runs worldwide according to the pattern from the satanic "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

The Explanation:

Important Information about the current Russian President Putin, & Chinese Xi too https://mile7bar.substack.com/p/what-should-you-know-about-the-current

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Aug 6·edited Aug 6

My God. That plot, if executed even without success, would've minimally gotten Ukraine incinerated. These people are legitimately insane.

While I would like to share Mr Korybko's hope and optimism, I'm afraid they've teed up two more whacks at the ball.

The first is obvsly Iran. The nutbars have succeeded in provoking Iran and even if they hadn't, Netanyahu would eventually succeed. He is another of the legitimately insane. There will be an attack. The only question is how long both sides can remain militarily and economically standing.

The second, more worrisome situation, is that they've recently placed intermediate range nuclear weapons in Germany. A former nuclear arms analyst and MIT professor has said that these weapons only give Moscow two minutes to react after initially detecting an attack via rheir ground-based radar. The problem is that Russia does not have a space-based detection system equivalent to ours, which would give more time. And even if they had a more effective system, is 20 minutes really long enough? I would expect/hope Putin is quietly demanding immediate removal of these weapons and planning to take them out if they are not.

The nutbars want a global war. Why is a mystery. Because the logic of it escapes me.

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America's policy making is always dependent on the presidential election. There is no question that Biden has re-implemented Trump's border policy in 2024 in order to pretend his administration has been successful in closing our border. Sadly, the uninformed ( e,g. those who denied that Obama installed cages to keep children in and that gasoline costs half of what it does now when the 3rd Obama administration took over the USA and it became the USSA) have forgotten the FJB debacle in Afghanistan, our ruined economy, and the state of politics on the planet, since a complete idiot was installed in the White House.

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A great wise man (sigh, I forgot his name) said that in the confrontation of large nations, it is important to ensure that none of the contestants "lose face". For US neocons to swallow the bitter truth, Russia needs to prepare some sugar coatings (lip service would be perfectly fine) to help seal the conclusion of this episode. However, Ukraine ultra-nationalists are still there within this episode, AND, the American neocons are preparing for the next episode. Whether BRICS want to have their own currency or not (a subject which should not be rushed) the critical importance of USD in international trades has to be reduced further.

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