"F it!" Russia's Final Break With the West

Fisted by Foucalt ^ | 2/23/2022 | Niccolo Soldo

[frithguild]

*** Not just for the reason Brzezinski illustrated, but because of a concept known as ‘nuclear primacy’ - a nuclear power can defeat another by eliminating its nuclear weapons before they can be launched against them. The reason why NATO ABM sites have been built in Poland and Romania is to push their reach closer to Russia’s European borders, the part where most Russian citizens live. This already increases the threat to Russia immensely, and has informed their military tech research and manufacturing to focus on anti-missile defence and away from conventional threats. *** This crisis was not about Ukraine. Ukraine only provided the setting for which this crisis is playing itself out. The point of this crisis, from the US perspective, is to effect a final cut off of Russia from Europe economically, so as to reduce Russian influence and increase US dominance on the continent, while cashing in by way of LNG exports to replace Russian gas deliveries. That’s it. The USA is more than happy in seeing Kiev occupied by Russian forces, because it kills the NordStream 2 pipeline, and opens up new business for American LNG companies, as well as bigger business for US arms exporters. *** Ukrainian President Shecky Greenberg is f*d beyond belief. I strongly doubt he is as passionate about Ukrainian independence as a Banderista from West Ukraine, but I don’t doubt that he does harbour some desire to see his country free from Russian control. The problem is that he has zero room for maneuver, caught between a Russia breathing down his neck, and a USA that has him by the balls as he is listed in corruption indexes as having overseas accounts with money thieved from his own country’s coffers, no doubt via his sponsor, Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. ***

[MinorityRepublican]

I think NATO is obsolete and it should have ended with the end of the cold war. The E.U. should take NATO’s place and build on army to defend Europe’s borders from the Russians. USA should develop an alliance with Canada while becoming neutral in the rest of the world.

[jmacusa]

I’ve been saying the same thing for the last three weeks.

“Oh look, the Russians and Ukrainians are killing each other- again’’. Pick the century, pick the decade. Putin’s killing off a generation of his own young men and he’s just sowed 100 more years of Ukrainian hatred for this. Hell, he’s sown a thousand years of it.

Not our circus, not our monkeys.