It’s not just NATO... it’s the biodefence labs set up by the American administration.. right along the border... with Russia.. those were the targets right at the beginning of the war.. and Ukraine was seen burning stockpiles of documents out these facilities at the same time.. Biden family and money heavily involved in the those Biodefence Labs.. but nothing is discussed about this anywhere in MSM.. getting a bit tired of the propaganda machine in the west.
All major countries have biowarfare programs, which they often disguise as biodefense. And I'm sure they do work on biodefense too, as for a biowarfare weapon to be used effectively, you need an antidote. My source for all of this is Prof. Francis Boyle, author of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. Boyle correctly assessed very early in 2020 (January?) that SARS-Cov-2 was manmade--at the time, Fauci and his co-conspirators, all of them involved in gain-of-function research (i.e., altering viruses to make them more toxic, more contagious, or both) schemed to produce a paper saying the "novel" virus had to be zoonotic. For a humorous look at their scheming, using their own words, see Matt Orfalea's video The Covid Cover-Up Explained/Animation:
If your claim is true, why continue Stalin’s plan? Russia since the fall of the Berlin Wall has become far more corrupt and immoral run by Oligarchy. Ukraine in comparison is Russias trash can of receipts. Where do American Democrat ideologues get the hubris to waste 200 thousand Ukrainian lives? The current administration of aged hate America Boomers believes that nationalist’s and patriots of sovereignty and fools, therefore evil and can be destroyed within the wars they create to depose chosen villains. What’s that tell you about how the current administration sees our own military, soldiers, or anyone in uniform under their employ? They see them as this particular group of aged Boomer’s did in their Marxist university youth of the 1960’s and 70’s when they slandered their own generational weary veterans of Nam into oblivion to cover their own loathsomeness.
They "see" them that way because they are as communist as any other Marxist. Humans have no value except as pawns and cannon fodder.
BTW, I happen to be a "Boomer" (not submariner assigned to nuke powered and armed ship), of that generation, the child of 2 veterans, niece of a third and a veteran myself, so not of that other mindset at all. Further, I am a Bible believing Christians, and a now retired RN and EMS 1st responder, so I value life, from conception to death. I've had a "generation gap" with my own generation, since we hit adolescence.
You are looking at the wrong psychology. The “wonks” know perfectly well what they are doing. Who they are killing. You have the part about the money trail correct. But they know the devestation they are causing and are relishing it. You keep looking for logic you understand in the people fomenting these wars. And the plandemic. And the drugs and injections. The logic is there but it goes down rabbit holes most of us struggle to believe in. There are people on this planet who want to kill off as many people as they can in as profitable a manner as they can manage. And in a way to foment as much psychological dismay, confusion and insanity among the survivors as possible. Once everyone is completely shellshocked or misdirected, taking over total control is a simple process. The people who foment this stuff don’t want negotiation. They don’t want peaceful solutions. And if that happens in one spot they will create war in another. Much as isgl8ng on in Israel/Gaza. The crazier it seems, the more successful they are. We need to pull back. Get control of our election systems and our politicians. Get the politicians to clean out the beurocracies and untangle our corporations from government control. We need to cut our ties with the UN and the WHO. And maybe with NATO. Bring our military home. Close our sloppy borders. Eject the criminals/illegals and their drugs and human trafficking. Get our legislation cleaned up so it reflects our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Clean up the judicial system and remind them they don’t make laws. That is a LOT of work and way more important than going on about how wonks don’t understand what war feels like. We need to tackle our deep state and dismantle it. Pure and simple.
War is a racket always has been as Julian Assange famously remarked in 2010 ater release of Manning's War Logs & Collateral Murder video via WikiLeaks ... "The goal is not successful war but endless war.The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite."
Correct my quote of Butler was added to remarks made by Julian Assange who is currently tortured in London's GITMO at the behest of US w charges under 1917 Espionage Act for publication of war crimes evidence.. Smedley fared far better in being allowed to speak.
Money in politics has just about destroyed our system.
Don’t do what the big donors want and they fund someone else to replace you next election... if they don’t already have incriminating pictures of you to manage your vote.
All the unions, corporations and political PACs must be kept from donating! Only individual citizens IN the given precinct covered by the office in consideration should be allowed to donate, and a limit to total individual donations per election cycle needs to be set as well. That's my 2¢ on it...
Take the money power away from the private financial system that uses it to maximize their profits and control. End the corporate state tyranny by taking that power away from the private sector which has made our government a private sector unwilling to serve the needs of the people. https://howardswitzer.medium.com/what-is-enough-8d6db712ef5a
I am not a fan of Russia, but it's obvious Russia was pushed into this pointless war by MIC and neocons in Biden's administration. Remember all propaganda "Ukraine is winning"...what happened to this year's offensive??? Except thousands of Ukrainians dead?
These same folks pushing this continued conflict with Russia...globalists all...are the SAME folks who pushed the lethal COVID vac on humanity thru out the World....it exposes their hatred for man, woman and child as their greed to make more and more money into their pockets off the taxes of those who survived the vac and lockdowns...
The US has a long history of doing stupid proxy wars throughout the world and accomplishing absolutely squat. Look at the Viet Nam debacle, the Afghanistan waste of money, troops and weapons and now the ridiculous Ukraine mess where both sides knew that Russia had a standing agreement that there would be a buffer border of other countries surrounding it keeping them away from any NATO aligned countries right next to them. And as others have stated too the bio warfare labs next to Russia were a non starter. The US put them in Ukraine because it was illegal to have them in the US. That's just US bully tactics.
The main thing the U.S. side has to bargain with as its Ukrainian proxy military collapses is international recognition of the new borders, an end to de facto/de jure, and special colorations on maps for disputed territories. That is worth something to Russia, and they might make some concessions to get it.
I doubt Russia at this point has any interest in U.S./Nato promises of Ukrainian neutrality or demilitarization. They know they’re worthless.
National borders are a discrete and well-defined issue, and hard enough to change once established that – to put it bluntly – I think it is worth an oblast or two to Russia to get universal recognition of their territory.
Ukraine negotiate with Russia? Since when should anyone negotiate with the Soviets? That’s worked well for the US and all the bs treaties over the past 5 decades, eh John?
We’ve decreased our own nuclear stockpiles courtesy these knucklehead idiot politicians and Presidents for 50 years and Russia (nor China) never stopped building their arsenals. The US hasn’t built a nuclear weapon since the early 90’s and there’s recently been an Air Force general state that even the ones we have in silos are past there lifetime and no guarantee they work if needed.
Now in 2023, Russia and China are working in tandem and will at some point attack the US. And NATO countries? None of them have armies that could do half what Ukraine has shown for the past 2 years. You think the Russians will stop if they “negotiate” with Ukraine? The Cold War never stopped. Communist China and the Soviets still want worldwide domination. Stop listening to the likes of Douglas Macgregor who has been pro-Russian from the start. I believe he stated the war would be over in 10 days, a Russian victory. We are now at 600-something days?
The Russian army has suffered a lot more casualties and deaths than conservatives hear about on their beloved Fox News.
I say support the Ukrainians. They want to go back under Soviet rule? They fight because they know what Communism is and what it brings.
Ukraine has been fighting the Russians for almost 8 years….2014...even before Russia invaded Ukraine a year and a half ago.
Americans need to wake up and realize the Communist threat to our way of life is a real threat and is on the move. South America and Central America have newly “elected” Communists in charge.
The democrat government is a much bigger threat to the US way of life than the Russians could ever be, they are well on the way to destroying US life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
There are those who call themselves Jews but are not. The use the antisemitism card to foment hatred to distract from their own evil actions and bring persecution on those Jews who are true Jews who seek good, not evil.
They former have plenty of minions to do their bidding who do not necessarily call themselves Jews but are as guilty as their masters.
When one takes even a casual look at the world and who controls the key areas it is obvious the large majority call themselves Jews. Therefore it is highly relevant and should not be ignored.
It has been the elephant in the room far too long that people are hesitant to talk about but it must be done.
Russia has always been a great power, with great power interests. Who amongst the group of historical or current great powers were NOT imperialists?
Russia is relatively underpopulated, has most of the remaining untapped but potential farmland, literally, on the planet, is awash in oil and all the various minerals needed for modern society. Its not clear to me that at this particular historic juncture that they have any particular reason to grab more territory. But they have been threatened, and ARE being threatened, with western leaders calling for Putin 'literally Hitler' to be overthrown, and wishing for the collapse of Russia. In public. If I was a Russian or a Russian leader I would be concerned with such attitudes. And WHO exactly blew up Nordstream? Do you believe it was the Russians blowing up their own pipeline?
The situation is not simple, this is not good against evil. The situation with the jabs is far more clearcut and straightforward, by comparison. That really does seem to be a straight good vs evil situation.
Do you think the Ukrainians can beat the Russians on the battlefield? And therefore no negotiation is needed or useful? Your post suggests you believe the answer is yes and yes.
Otherwise its a useless pathologic meatgrinder. No better end could have been than the early position put forth by the Russians. That deal, possibly shutdown by B Johnson, is not coming back. Negotiations now will lead to a worse outcome for Ukraine, at the tail end of a horrific death toll. All to no purpose. Well there was a purpose, as our host points out, to enrich the MIC and weaken Russia. They got the first, bigtime, but not the second.
Why I ask. If you think like I do, that the Ukraine could never have won and will never win, then assuming the Russians (not soviets BTW) might actually uphold an agreement and seeing where that gets you was worth pursuing. For example, I notice things seem 'stable enough' in Georgia, I dont see headlines of Russian tanks rolling over Georgia, there was an explosion when Georgia tried to take over Russian speaking and identifying enclaves in Georgia, that stopped when Russian tanks rolled, and that seems to be that. The Russian enclaves are still Russian. Just as before, the rest of Georgia is still Georgian.
I have heard the 'collective west' by which I mean our leaders, made sure that did not happen, (the early deal offered by the Russians in like month 2 or whenever), I also read good evidence that the west bargained in bad faith on both Minsk 1 and 2, as shown by Merkels comments amongst much else. Its not a clear picture of dominoes and communism as we were told in 1965.
EDIT I would add the EU is committing economic suicide by shutting down Russian NG. Germany in particular. Its like holding a gun to your head and threatening to shoot. The Russians said "Dah, go for it". While american liquid natural gas at triple the price enriches somebody or other.
Well said, John. Yea re tired of these fruitless forever wars that the US leads us all into. They go nowhere and achieve nothing.
I have been saying the same thing about the Ukraine war. Russia knows very well about being invaded and has looked aghast at the NATOifcation of Europe. It should never have happened.
Obama didn’t give a hoot about Ukrainians in 2014. I am certain, Poland cares about being invaded by Russia, as are Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, even Moldova and the Balkans. Leake argues these border countries should be a buffer zone between NATO and the aggression of Russia provoked by a false fear of an invasion from the West. Nonsense.
After walking out on Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, why wouldn’t we shamefully do so in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Australia. Be a has been world power vulnerable and weak, or convert to Woke Socialism and join The Party.
What do you say to the point Leake makes about the disparity between US attitudes towards states such as Cuba or Mexico aligning with enemies of the US, and this situation?
Doesn't it feel as though a double standard is in play? Its fine for the US to threaten WW3 to get Russian missiles out of Cuba, but the Russians have no say in our arming and training the Ukraine, and setting them up (putatively) to fight us a proxy war? The goal of the collapse of Russia and their leadership has been said in public by more than one powerful rep of the 'collective west'.
It’s not just NATO... it’s the biodefence labs set up by the American administration.. right along the border... with Russia.. those were the targets right at the beginning of the war.. and Ukraine was seen burning stockpiles of documents out these facilities at the same time.. Biden family and money heavily involved in the those Biodefence Labs.. but nothing is discussed about this anywhere in MSM.. getting a bit tired of the propaganda machine in the west.
Biodefense is a cover word for biowarfare.
Biodefense is the opposite of biooffense.
All major countries have biowarfare programs, which they often disguise as biodefense. And I'm sure they do work on biodefense too, as for a biowarfare weapon to be used effectively, you need an antidote. My source for all of this is Prof. Francis Boyle, author of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989. Boyle correctly assessed very early in 2020 (January?) that SARS-Cov-2 was manmade--at the time, Fauci and his co-conspirators, all of them involved in gain-of-function research (i.e., altering viruses to make them more toxic, more contagious, or both) schemed to produce a paper saying the "novel" virus had to be zoonotic. For a humorous look at their scheming, using their own words, see Matt Orfalea's video The Covid Cover-Up Explained/Animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhAGPQE0H-U
Well said!
Have you ever considering ignoring the MSM?
Oh no! Those labs were set up and run by the USSR, long before America had any influence there! We only continued what Stalin started there.
If your claim is true, why continue Stalin’s plan? Russia since the fall of the Berlin Wall has become far more corrupt and immoral run by Oligarchy. Ukraine in comparison is Russias trash can of receipts. Where do American Democrat ideologues get the hubris to waste 200 thousand Ukrainian lives? The current administration of aged hate America Boomers believes that nationalist’s and patriots of sovereignty and fools, therefore evil and can be destroyed within the wars they create to depose chosen villains. What’s that tell you about how the current administration sees our own military, soldiers, or anyone in uniform under their employ? They see them as this particular group of aged Boomer’s did in their Marxist university youth of the 1960’s and 70’s when they slandered their own generational weary veterans of Nam into oblivion to cover their own loathsomeness.
They "see" them that way because they are as communist as any other Marxist. Humans have no value except as pawns and cannon fodder.
BTW, I happen to be a "Boomer" (not submariner assigned to nuke powered and armed ship), of that generation, the child of 2 veterans, niece of a third and a veteran myself, so not of that other mindset at all. Further, I am a Bible believing Christians, and a now retired RN and EMS 1st responder, so I value life, from conception to death. I've had a "generation gap" with my own generation, since we hit adolescence.
We took over the funding when the USSR collapsed.
The point was WE did not start that, as implied by the article.
Sure, Ukraine burnt incriminating documents in plain site. You are pathetic.
https://www.youtube.com/live/SGzCt4Azc00?si=oG95xRJs4mjsc-wG
There’s more but you being short on intelligence means I could talk for hours and you would not hear a word.. go boil your head.
If there is anything that America is not short on, it is government intelligence agencies, having 17 of them.
https://www.youtube.com/live/9_EHI2syUbs?si=8jrLoZNGZbAUvayh
I guess that means that you didn't see them.
You are looking at the wrong psychology. The “wonks” know perfectly well what they are doing. Who they are killing. You have the part about the money trail correct. But they know the devestation they are causing and are relishing it. You keep looking for logic you understand in the people fomenting these wars. And the plandemic. And the drugs and injections. The logic is there but it goes down rabbit holes most of us struggle to believe in. There are people on this planet who want to kill off as many people as they can in as profitable a manner as they can manage. And in a way to foment as much psychological dismay, confusion and insanity among the survivors as possible. Once everyone is completely shellshocked or misdirected, taking over total control is a simple process. The people who foment this stuff don’t want negotiation. They don’t want peaceful solutions. And if that happens in one spot they will create war in another. Much as isgl8ng on in Israel/Gaza. The crazier it seems, the more successful they are. We need to pull back. Get control of our election systems and our politicians. Get the politicians to clean out the beurocracies and untangle our corporations from government control. We need to cut our ties with the UN and the WHO. And maybe with NATO. Bring our military home. Close our sloppy borders. Eject the criminals/illegals and their drugs and human trafficking. Get our legislation cleaned up so it reflects our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Clean up the judicial system and remind them they don’t make laws. That is a LOT of work and way more important than going on about how wonks don’t understand what war feels like. We need to tackle our deep state and dismantle it. Pure and simple.
100% agree. Canadians must do the same thing.
The whole world needs to do it.
War is a racket always has been as Julian Assange famously remarked in 2010 ater release of Manning's War Logs & Collateral Murder video via WikiLeaks ... "The goal is not successful war but endless war.The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite."
https://web.archive.org/web/20150405124236/https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
Julian is a political pawn.. and has done nothing the New York Times hasn’t... time to set him free.
Smedley Butler wrote a book with that title before Assange was born.
Correct my quote of Butler was added to remarks made by Julian Assange who is currently tortured in London's GITMO at the behest of US w charges under 1917 Espionage Act for publication of war crimes evidence.. Smedley fared far better in being allowed to speak.
Money in politics has just about destroyed our system.
Don’t do what the big donors want and they fund someone else to replace you next election... if they don’t already have incriminating pictures of you to manage your vote.
Take corporate money out of politics!
All the unions, corporations and political PACs must be kept from donating! Only individual citizens IN the given precinct covered by the office in consideration should be allowed to donate, and a limit to total individual donations per election cycle needs to be set as well. That's my 2¢ on it...
Take the money power away from the private financial system that uses it to maximize their profits and control. End the corporate state tyranny by taking that power away from the private sector which has made our government a private sector unwilling to serve the needs of the people. https://howardswitzer.medium.com/what-is-enough-8d6db712ef5a
Trust unaccountable government bureaucrats instead, because they really really care! On what planet?
I am not a fan of Russia, but it's obvious Russia was pushed into this pointless war by MIC and neocons in Biden's administration. Remember all propaganda "Ukraine is winning"...what happened to this year's offensive??? Except thousands of Ukrainians dead?
Excellent piece John!! Little more needs saying.
These same folks pushing this continued conflict with Russia...globalists all...are the SAME folks who pushed the lethal COVID vac on humanity thru out the World....it exposes their hatred for man, woman and child as their greed to make more and more money into their pockets off the taxes of those who survived the vac and lockdowns...
You nailed it! 👏🎯
Can we just please stop funding wars all over the globe?
‘Whatever you want more of, subsidize. Whatever you want less of, tax it. ‘
-quote by Sowell maybe? Can’t remember but it’s brilliant.
The more we fund war, the more there seems to be. Maybe we should tax global wars instead.
The US has a long history of doing stupid proxy wars throughout the world and accomplishing absolutely squat. Look at the Viet Nam debacle, the Afghanistan waste of money, troops and weapons and now the ridiculous Ukraine mess where both sides knew that Russia had a standing agreement that there would be a buffer border of other countries surrounding it keeping them away from any NATO aligned countries right next to them. And as others have stated too the bio warfare labs next to Russia were a non starter. The US put them in Ukraine because it was illegal to have them in the US. That's just US bully tactics.
Negotiate? What a joke.
Russia is free to take what it wants, and leave a husk as a buffer rump state.
NATO must be destroyed.
The main thing the U.S. side has to bargain with as its Ukrainian proxy military collapses is international recognition of the new borders, an end to de facto/de jure, and special colorations on maps for disputed territories. That is worth something to Russia, and they might make some concessions to get it.
After Minsk, Russia cannot trust the West. USA has elevated Chutzpah to a Cabinet level office.
I doubt Russia at this point has any interest in U.S./Nato promises of Ukrainian neutrality or demilitarization. They know they’re worthless.
National borders are a discrete and well-defined issue, and hard enough to change once established that – to put it bluntly – I think it is worth an oblast or two to Russia to get universal recognition of their territory.
The East is Ascending, while the West is Imploding!
The East (China and Japan) has its own massive problems. I think it's the global South that is ascending instead.
Bravo!
Ukraine negotiate with Russia? Since when should anyone negotiate with the Soviets? That’s worked well for the US and all the bs treaties over the past 5 decades, eh John?
We’ve decreased our own nuclear stockpiles courtesy these knucklehead idiot politicians and Presidents for 50 years and Russia (nor China) never stopped building their arsenals. The US hasn’t built a nuclear weapon since the early 90’s and there’s recently been an Air Force general state that even the ones we have in silos are past there lifetime and no guarantee they work if needed.
Now in 2023, Russia and China are working in tandem and will at some point attack the US. And NATO countries? None of them have armies that could do half what Ukraine has shown for the past 2 years. You think the Russians will stop if they “negotiate” with Ukraine? The Cold War never stopped. Communist China and the Soviets still want worldwide domination. Stop listening to the likes of Douglas Macgregor who has been pro-Russian from the start. I believe he stated the war would be over in 10 days, a Russian victory. We are now at 600-something days?
The Russian army has suffered a lot more casualties and deaths than conservatives hear about on their beloved Fox News.
I say support the Ukrainians. They want to go back under Soviet rule? They fight because they know what Communism is and what it brings.
Ukraine has been fighting the Russians for almost 8 years….2014...even before Russia invaded Ukraine a year and a half ago.
Americans need to wake up and realize the Communist threat to our way of life is a real threat and is on the move. South America and Central America have newly “elected” Communists in charge.
The democrat government is a much bigger threat to the US way of life than the Russians could ever be, they are well on the way to destroying US life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It's actually the Zionists who are the threat. The Zionsits control both the Dems and the Repubs. Check out Dr. Shiva and the "swarm theory".
Some people will find any excuse to blame the Jews. Your argument is irrelevant to the current discussion. Get it?
There are those who call themselves Jews but are not. The use the antisemitism card to foment hatred to distract from their own evil actions and bring persecution on those Jews who are true Jews who seek good, not evil.
They former have plenty of minions to do their bidding who do not necessarily call themselves Jews but are as guilty as their masters.
When one takes even a casual look at the world and who controls the key areas it is obvious the large majority call themselves Jews. Therefore it is highly relevant and should not be ignored.
It has been the elephant in the room far too long that people are hesitant to talk about but it must be done.
Do you own any history books?
Taugh
Can you read? Russia has always been imperialist.
Russia has always been a great power, with great power interests. Who amongst the group of historical or current great powers were NOT imperialists?
Russia is relatively underpopulated, has most of the remaining untapped but potential farmland, literally, on the planet, is awash in oil and all the various minerals needed for modern society. Its not clear to me that at this particular historic juncture that they have any particular reason to grab more territory. But they have been threatened, and ARE being threatened, with western leaders calling for Putin 'literally Hitler' to be overthrown, and wishing for the collapse of Russia. In public. If I was a Russian or a Russian leader I would be concerned with such attitudes. And WHO exactly blew up Nordstream? Do you believe it was the Russians blowing up their own pipeline?
The situation is not simple, this is not good against evil. The situation with the jabs is far more clearcut and straightforward, by comparison. That really does seem to be a straight good vs evil situation.
Thanks, Grant!
That's a good reply
The kind that is not reported by the MSM
What’s history?
Do you think the Ukrainians can beat the Russians on the battlefield? And therefore no negotiation is needed or useful? Your post suggests you believe the answer is yes and yes.
Otherwise its a useless pathologic meatgrinder. No better end could have been than the early position put forth by the Russians. That deal, possibly shutdown by B Johnson, is not coming back. Negotiations now will lead to a worse outcome for Ukraine, at the tail end of a horrific death toll. All to no purpose. Well there was a purpose, as our host points out, to enrich the MIC and weaken Russia. They got the first, bigtime, but not the second.
Why I ask. If you think like I do, that the Ukraine could never have won and will never win, then assuming the Russians (not soviets BTW) might actually uphold an agreement and seeing where that gets you was worth pursuing. For example, I notice things seem 'stable enough' in Georgia, I dont see headlines of Russian tanks rolling over Georgia, there was an explosion when Georgia tried to take over Russian speaking and identifying enclaves in Georgia, that stopped when Russian tanks rolled, and that seems to be that. The Russian enclaves are still Russian. Just as before, the rest of Georgia is still Georgian.
I have heard the 'collective west' by which I mean our leaders, made sure that did not happen, (the early deal offered by the Russians in like month 2 or whenever), I also read good evidence that the west bargained in bad faith on both Minsk 1 and 2, as shown by Merkels comments amongst much else. Its not a clear picture of dominoes and communism as we were told in 1965.
EDIT I would add the EU is committing economic suicide by shutting down Russian NG. Germany in particular. Its like holding a gun to your head and threatening to shoot. The Russians said "Dah, go for it". While american liquid natural gas at triple the price enriches somebody or other.
Soviets? We are the commies now.
You're such a shill for the neocons. Nobody here falls for the bullshit you're selling.
Well said. Russia was an agressor violating their 1991 agreement - the US and UK are obligated to defend Ukraine.
Well said!
Well said, John. Yea re tired of these fruitless forever wars that the US leads us all into. They go nowhere and achieve nothing.
I have been saying the same thing about the Ukraine war. Russia knows very well about being invaded and has looked aghast at the NATOifcation of Europe. It should never have happened.
Obama didn’t give a hoot about Ukrainians in 2014. I am certain, Poland cares about being invaded by Russia, as are Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, even Moldova and the Balkans. Leake argues these border countries should be a buffer zone between NATO and the aggression of Russia provoked by a false fear of an invasion from the West. Nonsense.
After walking out on Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, why wouldn’t we shamefully do so in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Australia. Be a has been world power vulnerable and weak, or convert to Woke Socialism and join The Party.
What do you say to the point Leake makes about the disparity between US attitudes towards states such as Cuba or Mexico aligning with enemies of the US, and this situation?
Doesn't it feel as though a double standard is in play? Its fine for the US to threaten WW3 to get Russian missiles out of Cuba, but the Russians have no say in our arming and training the Ukraine, and setting them up (putatively) to fight us a proxy war? The goal of the collapse of Russia and their leadership has been said in public by more than one powerful rep of the 'collective west'.