This piece just continues to beg the question for me of why this thing got to this point and why it just keeps being drug out...
My working theory was the West armed up Ukr, inflicted sanctions thinking that they would be sufficient to make Russia economically and politically unstable, and then Ukraine would be unleashed to go divide up R…
This piece just continues to beg the question for me of why this thing got to this point and why it just keeps being drug out...
My working theory was the West armed up Ukr, inflicted sanctions thinking that they would be sufficient to make Russia economically and politically unstable, and then Ukraine would be unleashed to go divide up Russia. But all the assumptions proved to be wrong.
Instead, the West gave up the Donbas and all its mineral wealth, cut off Europe from its cheap energy, shoved Russia into an alliance with China, sparked creation of an alternative global trading system, and finally very publicly unmasked the West as nothing but a bunch of colonialist vandals. When do you shoot off enough toes that it makes sense to stop shooting and put the gun away?
This charade intended to avoid accidental escalation betrays the existence of some Western intelligence that otherwise appears totally absent. Most attribute the West's behavior to insanity, which as this piece shows just seems an unsatisfactory explanation.
When juxtaposed with what happened in the Middle East the Ukraine situation has the appearance of possibly being part of some bigger game, but by all appearances the US, forget about Europe, is not positioned economically or in a military-industrial sense prepared for anything bigger. Does the US expect its adversary to ship medicines and vital parts to it during a war?
Please make it all make sense, because I'm definitely missing something.
Once you understand that the objective of almost all Western governments - which are actually all just one government - is to destroy their own countries, societies and economies....
- then everything starts to make a llot more sense.
I've entertained this, and I think China shares this pov to some extent. But, if the West wanted to destroy itself, seems like provoking an over-reaction would be a good way to do it.
I get there's some historical enmity in the UK they just cant get over, but we seem to be playing no limit hold 'em with 2-5 off suit and everyone playing knows it.
This piece just continues to beg the question for me of why this thing got to this point and why it just keeps being drug out...
My working theory was the West armed up Ukr, inflicted sanctions thinking that they would be sufficient to make Russia economically and politically unstable, and then Ukraine would be unleashed to go divide up Russia. But all the assumptions proved to be wrong.
Instead, the West gave up the Donbas and all its mineral wealth, cut off Europe from its cheap energy, shoved Russia into an alliance with China, sparked creation of an alternative global trading system, and finally very publicly unmasked the West as nothing but a bunch of colonialist vandals. When do you shoot off enough toes that it makes sense to stop shooting and put the gun away?
This charade intended to avoid accidental escalation betrays the existence of some Western intelligence that otherwise appears totally absent. Most attribute the West's behavior to insanity, which as this piece shows just seems an unsatisfactory explanation.
When juxtaposed with what happened in the Middle East the Ukraine situation has the appearance of possibly being part of some bigger game, but by all appearances the US, forget about Europe, is not positioned economically or in a military-industrial sense prepared for anything bigger. Does the US expect its adversary to ship medicines and vital parts to it during a war?
Please make it all make sense, because I'm definitely missing something.
Once you understand that the objective of almost all Western governments - which are actually all just one government - is to destroy their own countries, societies and economies....
- then everything starts to make a llot more sense.
I've entertained this, and I think China shares this pov to some extent. But, if the West wanted to destroy itself, seems like provoking an over-reaction would be a good way to do it.
I get there's some historical enmity in the UK they just cant get over, but we seem to be playing no limit hold 'em with 2-5 off suit and everyone playing knows it.