When people talk about the millions going into Zelenskyy’s regime and how ee can’t afford it, I’m tempted to post up the sheer amount of money Russia got given during AND AFTER World War Two by the USA and its allies, that it’s not paid back.
The Molotov Plan was politically Soviet but it was kick-started with American money.
The Soviet Union paid back $170 million, but only after it received in excess of $180 billion. On top of that, it made a fortune through OPEC.
The idea Russia isn’t deep state is hilarious. Without the deep state Putin would have a teepee, not multiple palaces and superyachts.
And then consider the military industrial complex of the Cold War - and the sheer cost of it. Military expenditure by the USA alone during the Cold War are conservatively estimated to be $9 trillion.
Prolonged cold wars are good business for the deep state, but eyewateringly expensive. A hot war is far more deadly, but considerably cheaper.
Siding with Putin and demanding Ukraine accept its fate as the new Checkpoint Charlie between the Russian Empire and Europe (while some Russian expansionists talk about expanding further, into the Baltics, Poland, Hungary and Serbia) is falling for a deep state rope-a-dope.
If you’re truly anti deep state, Russian expansionism needs to be castrated. If the Vatniks want totalitarianism they can have it - but only in their borders. If Belarus and Russia do both want it, great.
But it shouldn’t be imposed on any other country. And Russia should have to fund the adventure all by itself.
Once that’s done, then America can pull out of NATO, Europe can restructure its defences, and we can look ling term at taking down the globalist structures in our remit.
We can’t do anything about other structures that serve or fund globalism... WEF, OPEC, Belt and Road, Russkyi Mir. Globalism doesn’t just serve the unipolarity of the West, it increasingly adapts to suit multinational corporation networks and nonwestern polarities.
“while some Russian expansionists talk about expanding further, into the Baltics, Poland, Hungary and Serbia) is falling for a deep state rope-a-dope.”
EXACTLY!
However, the world is now realizing this:
First, Russia came for Transnistria, Moldova in 1990 and we did not speak out—because I was not a Moldavian.
Then, Russia came for Georgia in 2008, and we did not speak out—because I was not a Georgian.
Then, Russia came for the Crimean peninsula and the Donbas of Ukraine, and we ARE NOW SPEAKING OUT—because RUSSIA MUST STOP INVASIONS of sovereign nations!
If not stopped then, Russia will come for non-NATO & Ex- Soviet States: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan BelarusCyprus, Estonia Finland, Ireland, Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lithuania, Malta, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
—And in April, 2022, Russian Brigadier General Rustam Minnekayev directed by Putin said: ”RUSSIA is now at WAR with the whole world, as it [was] in the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR.”
There is no one no ally left in Europe to speak for the U.S.A.:
And, now to counter Russian aggression has become far too expensive for the U.S. to defeat this renewed Russian Superpower.