[Williams]

We better surrender to the neocons, apparently they control Russia’s military and forced them to invade Ukraine for a solid year. That’s power.

[kiryandil]

The neocons didn't count on Russia's apparent boundless ability to demilitarize the Left West...

[ifinnegan]

Cheese.

I don’t care about Eastern Europe.

Putin started it. He’s screwing his over and in cahoots with Biden.

Don’t need your crap infighting nonsense.

[exinnj]

Frank Write, whoever the hell he is, wrote, in part (and you citing him): “...in addition, a heavily reinforced defensive line was built down the eastern flank of Ukraine..”.
So, Ukraine built a defensive line to attack Russia, and that is one of the reasons Russia was provoked into this war? It doesn’t make any sense. A dog barking loud enough would provoke Russia...

[McGruff]

[stinkerpot65]

Putin won’t allow perverts and globalists.

[Mariner]

“It is for these reasons that it is seeking a swift exit from Ukraine which pacifies the Russians. The United States has orchestrated a defeat for itself of an order of magnitude which eclipses the debacle of Afghanistan, having weakened its allies, exposed its military vulnerability, attacked a fellow NATO member and taken measures which have seriously degraded the European economy. It appears to have no plan other than to cut and run from the mess it will leave its friends in Europe, who will have to find their own way to deal with a renascent and victorious Russia. “

Yep

Best summary I’ve read in at least a week.

[Bratch]

Meat of the article.

*****

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• Firstly, the U.S. decided to remove Yanukovich because he declined a neoliberal economic package from the West, and moved to accept an interest free loan from Russia instead. The U.S. then toppled his government and replaced it with one which immediately implemented punishing neoliberal “reforms.” 

• Secondly, the U.S. and NATO then set about rebuilding the defeated Ukrainian army, training and funding it to become the biggest and best in Europe by 2022. In addition, a heavily reinforced defensive line was built down the eastern flank of Ukraine. This is known by some today as the Zelensky Line. 

• Thirdly, the U.S. and its allies entered into negotiations with Russia over the Donbass whose conditions were never intended to be implemented. It is now admitted by Angela Merkel, former Ukrainian President Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky himself that these agreements were undertaken to buy time for the rearmament of Ukraine. 

• Fourthly, the plan as set out in this 2019 RAND Corporation paper was to engage Russia in a military conflict designed to result in stalemate. The US intended to entrap Russia in the kind of quagmire which had stymied its own adventures abroad. The goal here was not only the military humiliation of Russia, but was moreover an attempt to “bleed” Russia on the battlefield in an unwinnable campaign of Western-backed attrition. 

• Fifthly, as RAND indicated, the use of economic sanctions to isolate and degrade the Russian economy was supposed to guarantee a domestic crisis in Russia, which would combine with the planned Russian military disaster to produce serious unrest. 

• Sixth, the goal was ultimately to create the conditions for regime change in Russia. By “overextending and unbalancing” Russia in the military, economic and diplomatic spheres the U.S. could realistically hope to replace the Russian state with one of its own choosing, as it had done with Ukraine. 

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[Flavious_Maximus]

They are NOT NeoCons nor NeoLibs.

A spade is a spade. They are Golden Calf Bolsheviks who hate Israel and worship Baal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal

[indthkr]

This is the War that Obama, John McCain, and Linda Graham were trying to start before Trump was elected.

[Timber Rattler]

What a load of smelly hogwash.

[Uncle Miltie]

Neocons tricked Russia into invading!