“Of course, that Russian “threat” is a lie and any American volunteers would be dying only to increase the obscene profits of the DC MIC oligarchs.”
I don’t buy into the ‘profit’ motive as the main driver, although it is a secondary ‘benefit’ of destroying millions of lives in Ukraine.
It’s more a sick, Globohomo, and ESPECIALLY Climate Change agenda.
If Russia prevails, our governments are looking at being on the losing side of Cold War 2, with the sides reversed, as Russia will be a rich, relatively free, hydrocarbon-fueled, country with strong moral values (just today there was a thread about Russia not permitting child molesters to adopt kids, imagine that!), while the West is a decrepit, corrupt, Fascist, dictatorship, overrun by the Third World and headed for the dustbin of history.
The people in the West will be looking with envy at Russia, if they prevail, while we’re forced to live in “15 Minute Cities” and get on buses with people who knife us for sport. We will want to be like the Russian, and, eventually, the masses will simply OVERTHROW their Western dictatorships. So, just like Cold War 1, the only option is for the decrepit side (the West, this time) to try to take down the beacon of hope (the Russian side), so people have nothing to strive for.
China will be money source and Russia is the new “city upon a hill” for what used to be called the non aligned or third world countries. All traditional societies look to Moscow for support against globohomo economic and political tyranny. BRICS, SCO, OPEC+, Global South are the movements of the future. The Decadent Globohomo West accounts for about 15% of the world’s population. The other 85% is quickly becoming allied against us. The fact that two has been, collapsed colonial powers with populations California will soon exceed sit on the UN Security Council while India does not shows how out of date the post war era is today.