US government officials have been threatening to cut off Ukraine's vital battleground access to Starlink unless Ukraine agrees to hand over a massive chunk of their national mineral wealth to the US
Proxy war? Because cut out of the peace process? Ukraine is divided after all this horror. But was originally clearly determined to resist. To fight. Trump n Musk are gangsters for sure. But perhaps you mean ‘proxy peace’? And maybe external imposition is more acceptable than surrender? But Ukr should keep its resources. Of course.
You are- unusually- wrong about Ukraine. The government there is dominated by Nazis, followers of Stepan Bandera and his colleagues who were genocidal maniacs, willing volunteers as Concentration Camp guards and perpetrators of numerous massacres of Jews, Poles and socialists. I live in a country in which the influence of unreconstructed SS veterans as well as Ustashe exiles and every kind of Nazi collaborator remains strong. You might recall the speactacle of an SS 'hero' who 'killed Russians' being given a standing and apparently unanimous ovation in Canada's Parliament.
Ukraine, encouraged by Boris Johnson et al, did, indeed provoke the war by the persecution of Russian speakers (Russian is the lingua franca) and their killing of opponents. Remember the Odessa Massacre of 2014.
The 'abandonment' of the Kiev regime is long overdue- it has banned all political opposition, taken over all the media (AAV-like Gonzalo Lira -would be arrested, tortured and killed) and more than decimated the population.
Much of the blame for this lies with NATO governments that preserved the Nazi collaborator emigre organisations which, after Ukrainian independence , rushed into the country (as well as the Baltic states for example) and promoted agendas of russophobia, neo-liberalism and subservience to the American Empire.
As to Ukrainian resources they, including agricultural land, have been auctioned off-unconstitutionally- to foreign investors, including Wall St Hedge Funds, for several years. It is to be hoped that under the Peace Treaty the Ukrainan people, not Joe Biden's oligarch friends, will be restored to the ownership of the resources which will make them prosperous again.
Absolutely bang on the money! Anyone who didn't see this coming in some shape or form is at best naive. Whatever the result of this needless conflict the US was going to extort every last penny they could from them the same as they did us following the end of WW2.
What about the the marshall plan? After the war the US pumped 13bil (in 47 dollars) into 16 European country. US $ rebuilt Europe. I think you are a little mistaken. All the best sam
The United States was never a pro-democracy, pro-Ukraine advocate in this conflict. The US imperial agenda for the strategic defeat, isolation, dismembering and resource plundering of Russia is well known; it has been known for decades.
After the CIA was established in 1947, it engaged in operations countering Soviet influence, which included activities in Eastern Europe and Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
One of the early significant efforts was during the 1950s and 1960s, when the CIA supported anti-Soviet groups and provided assistance to Ukrainian émigré organizations.
The CIA promoted dissent within the Soviet bloc and gathered intelligence on Soviet activities.
These activities have as their ultimate aim the isolation and reduction of China.
This is what the US does. The sooner this is recognized, the sooner the distraction narratives, reaction and performative activism can be spurned so we can unite around the necessary revolutionary agenda.
Suggest you watch this Scott Ritter doc about Zelensky and his millions of dollars plus million-dollar properties around the world (and his wife's taste in the very latest Parisian fashions).
You might also have mentioned that only a fraction of the billions of dollars the US and the West have poured into Ukraine have been accounted for. The Trump team asked Zelensky and his government for evidence of how it was spent. No answer.
Zelensky was a willing (and handsomely rewarded) dupe of the US, not a victim deserving of sympathy.
Scott has emerged as one of the leading critics of US imperial expansionism , and I have viewed many of his videos, including his very polished presentation to which you link. Thanks for the recommendation. I encourage others reading this to view and study it carefully it as well.
What a clueless ridiculous & incorrect article, one of the most none fact based ones I've ever read. Trying to make the most corrupt Facist loving gangster ran country on the planet as a victim. What planet are you from? Where's these gas & oil fields in Ukraine? Where are these rare Earth production & mining facilities? Don't ever be trying to say the regions of the Donbass. Where the citizens speak Russian, made illegal by the criminal dictatorship. Weren't being slaughtered by the Ukrainian military. If anyone was trying to carve up Ukraine. It's the Facist extremists who have stolen hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars of aid . They were given by the worst administration in American history & it's pathetic vassels in the EU. Are you sure you aren't an idiotic member of the SBU kidnapping any male they see on the streets to fight for these criminals? Because your post is as delusional as any Ukrainian loving brain washed idiot I've ever read. Oil, gas & minerals wealth, where, when, what the hell are you talking about. Show me these areas & production facilities , they don't exist you fool.
Proxy war? Because cut out of the peace process? Ukraine is divided after all this horror. But was originally clearly determined to resist. To fight. Trump n Musk are gangsters for sure. But perhaps you mean ‘proxy peace’? And maybe external imposition is more acceptable than surrender? But Ukr should keep its resources. Of course.
The cynicism is off the Richter scale, and just shows (yet again) what ANY US intervention in foreign nations is really all about.
Zelensky is a thief that has pocketed off millions probably billions.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-embezzled-400-million-from-fuel-purchase-aid-report-3947123/amp/1
You are- unusually- wrong about Ukraine. The government there is dominated by Nazis, followers of Stepan Bandera and his colleagues who were genocidal maniacs, willing volunteers as Concentration Camp guards and perpetrators of numerous massacres of Jews, Poles and socialists. I live in a country in which the influence of unreconstructed SS veterans as well as Ustashe exiles and every kind of Nazi collaborator remains strong. You might recall the speactacle of an SS 'hero' who 'killed Russians' being given a standing and apparently unanimous ovation in Canada's Parliament.
Ukraine, encouraged by Boris Johnson et al, did, indeed provoke the war by the persecution of Russian speakers (Russian is the lingua franca) and their killing of opponents. Remember the Odessa Massacre of 2014.
The 'abandonment' of the Kiev regime is long overdue- it has banned all political opposition, taken over all the media (AAV-like Gonzalo Lira -would be arrested, tortured and killed) and more than decimated the population.
Much of the blame for this lies with NATO governments that preserved the Nazi collaborator emigre organisations which, after Ukrainian independence , rushed into the country (as well as the Baltic states for example) and promoted agendas of russophobia, neo-liberalism and subservience to the American Empire.
As to Ukrainian resources they, including agricultural land, have been auctioned off-unconstitutionally- to foreign investors, including Wall St Hedge Funds, for several years. It is to be hoped that under the Peace Treaty the Ukrainan people, not Joe Biden's oligarch friends, will be restored to the ownership of the resources which will make them prosperous again.
Absolutely bang on the money! Anyone who didn't see this coming in some shape or form is at best naive. Whatever the result of this needless conflict the US was going to extort every last penny they could from them the same as they did us following the end of WW2.
What about the the marshall plan? After the war the US pumped 13bil (in 47 dollars) into 16 European country. US $ rebuilt Europe. I think you are a little mistaken. All the best sam
The United States was never a pro-democracy, pro-Ukraine advocate in this conflict. The US imperial agenda for the strategic defeat, isolation, dismembering and resource plundering of Russia is well known; it has been known for decades.
After the CIA was established in 1947, it engaged in operations countering Soviet influence, which included activities in Eastern Europe and Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
One of the early significant efforts was during the 1950s and 1960s, when the CIA supported anti-Soviet groups and provided assistance to Ukrainian émigré organizations.
The CIA promoted dissent within the Soviet bloc and gathered intelligence on Soviet activities.
These activities have as their ultimate aim the isolation and reduction of China.
This is what the US does. The sooner this is recognized, the sooner the distraction narratives, reaction and performative activism can be spurned so we can unite around the necessary revolutionary agenda.
Suggest you watch this Scott Ritter doc about Zelensky and his millions of dollars plus million-dollar properties around the world (and his wife's taste in the very latest Parisian fashions).
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-agent-zelensky
You might also have mentioned that only a fraction of the billions of dollars the US and the West have poured into Ukraine have been accounted for. The Trump team asked Zelensky and his government for evidence of how it was spent. No answer.
Zelensky was a willing (and handsomely rewarded) dupe of the US, not a victim deserving of sympathy.
Scott has emerged as one of the leading critics of US imperial expansionism , and I have viewed many of his videos, including his very polished presentation to which you link. Thanks for the recommendation. I encourage others reading this to view and study it carefully it as well.
What a clueless ridiculous & incorrect article, one of the most none fact based ones I've ever read. Trying to make the most corrupt Facist loving gangster ran country on the planet as a victim. What planet are you from? Where's these gas & oil fields in Ukraine? Where are these rare Earth production & mining facilities? Don't ever be trying to say the regions of the Donbass. Where the citizens speak Russian, made illegal by the criminal dictatorship. Weren't being slaughtered by the Ukrainian military. If anyone was trying to carve up Ukraine. It's the Facist extremists who have stolen hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars of aid . They were given by the worst administration in American history & it's pathetic vassels in the EU. Are you sure you aren't an idiotic member of the SBU kidnapping any male they see on the streets to fight for these criminals? Because your post is as delusional as any Ukrainian loving brain washed idiot I've ever read. Oil, gas & minerals wealth, where, when, what the hell are you talking about. Show me these areas & production facilities , they don't exist you fool.
Zelenskyy will sign Trump’s deal today. Enjoy.