The Real Story Behind the Russia - Ukraine War: What Happens Next
... there is no case whatsoever that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was "unprovoked" and unrelated to NATO’s own transparent provocations in the region...
... the true expansionary hegemons of modern history have spent huge parts of their GDP on defense because that's what it takes to support the military infrastructure and logistics required for invasion and occupation of foreign lands...
Military Spending As A Percent Of GDP In Nazi Germany... 1935: 8%... 1944: 75%...
By contrast, during the final year before Washington/NATO triggered the Ukraine proxy war in February 2022, the Russian military... amounted to just 3.5% of its GDP...
Since full scale war broke out in 2022 Russian military spending has increased significantly to 6% of GDP, but all of that is being consumed by the Demolition Derby in Ukraine - barely 100 miles from its own border...
... it [the Ukraine proxy war] is rooted in territorial disputes and civil strife in lands which have been vassals or integral parts of greater Russia for several centuries... Ukraine actually means "borderlands" in the Russian language, connoting stateless areas that were first assembled into a coherent polity by Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev by force of arms after 1920...
... Yet during the last decade the Washington and the NATO warhawks have spent upwards of $300 billion to ensure that the handiwork of autocratic Czars and Commissars remains intact...
... Donald Trump has the good sense to dispense with one of the stupidest crusades that the War Party on the Potomac has yet concocted...
Accordingly, so-called democracy barely survived these contests until February 2014 when one of Washington’s "color revolutions" finally "succeeded"...
That’s the true meaning of the Maidan coup. It ended the tenuous cohesion that kept the artificial state of Ukraine intact for barely two decades after the Soviet demise...
The Donald now needs to tell Rubio in no uncertain terms to take a hike and then return to the essence of the 28-point plan and agree with Putin to a partition of Ukraine.
So doing, he would not only end the utter stupidity of NATO’s proxy war on Russia, but in the process accomplish something more of literally epic proportions: Namely, the defenestration of the neocons, official Washington, NATO, the rules based international order and all the other globalist humbug that has saddled America with $1.5 trillion per year Warfare State and Global Empire that it cannot afford and doesn't need...
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