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I recommend you look into these authors/commentators/analysts: * John Mearsheimer * Noam Chomsky * Vladimir Pozner * Jeffrey Sachs * Zbigniew Brezinski * George Friedman * Peter Zeihan * Peter Hitchens * Gonzalo Lira * Tim Marshall * Robert D Kaplan * Jack F. Matlock Jr * George Kennan * Stephen Cohen * Henry Kissinger

Indeed. NATO/EU expansion is essentially a slow-moving replay of Brest-Litovsk and Barbarossa from the Russian point-of-view. I'm an American but I totally understand why Russia just did what it did. Never forget that Lenin was sent to Russia BY GERMANY for the express purpose of destabilizing Russia during WW1. This is the type of destabilizing regime-change that Russia fears. Their fears are not unfounded if you pay close attention to what the US has done in Ukraine, which is something our media doesn't even cover.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Same here, I too seek out the motive behind actions; otherwise, history is the most boring and unintelligible sequence of events known to man.

I recommend you look into these authors/commentators/analysts: * John Mearsheimer * Noam Chomsky * Vladimir Pozner * Jeffrey Sachs * Zbigniew Brezinski * George Friedman * Peter Zeihan * Peter Hitchens * Gonzalo Lira * Tim Marshall * Robert D Kaplan * Jack F. Matlock Jr * George Kennan * Stephen Cohen * Henry Kissinger

Indeed. NATO/EU expansion is essentially a slow-moving replay of Brest-Litovsk and Barbarossa from the Russian point-of-view. I'm an American but I totally understand why Russia just did what it did. Never forget that Lenin was sent to Russia BY GERMANY for the express purpose of destabilizing Russia during WW1. This is the type of destabilizing regime-change that Russia fears. Their fears are not unfounded if you pay close attention to what the US has done in Ukraine, which is something our media doesn't even cover.

This is just the tip of the iceberg:

* https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/congress-has-remo...

* https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/4/pandora-papers-ukra...

* https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-r...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsh9V8UxenI

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK93aawlLKg

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Indeed. NATO/EU expansion is essentially a slow-moving replay of Brest-Litovsk and Barbarossa from the Russian point-of-view. I'm an American but I totally understand why Russia just did what it did. Never forget that Lenin was sent to Russia BY GERMANY for the express purpose of destabilizing Russia during WW1. This is the type of destabilizing regime-change that Russia fears. Their fears are not unfounded if you pay close attention to what the US has done in Ukraine, which is something our media doesn't even cover.

This is just the tip of the iceberg:

* https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/congress-has-remo...

* https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/4/pandora-papers-ukra...

* https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-r...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsh9V8UxenI

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK93aawlLKg

I seek out the motive behind actions; otherwise, history is the most boring and unintelligible sequence of events known to man.

I recommend you look into these authors/commentators/analysts: * John Mearsheimer * Noam Chomsky * Vladimir Pozner * Jeffrey Sachs * Zbigniew Brezinski * George Friedman * Peter Zeihan * Peter Hitchens * Gonzalo Lira * Tim Marshall * Robert D Kaplan * Jack F. Matlock Jr * George Kennan * Stephen Cohen * Henry Kissinger

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

> What it doesn't have is respect for the right of self-determination.

Did the US have any respect for self-determination in the 2014 putsch it backed in Ukraine?

warner_of_doomon The Price of Wheat

We need to start negotiating on that right now. We need to open up negotiations on this point immediately. Arab Spring x 10k is about to hit the entire world, and the result will be 10k times as nasty.

warner_of_doomon The Price of Wheat

We need to open up negotiations on this point immediately. Arab Spring x 10k is about to hit the entire world, and the result will be 10k times as nasty.

warner_of_doomon The Price of Wheat

Why is the media here in the US not reporting on the fact that grain prices are going to quadruple if sanctions on agricultural products and inputs are not lifted?

Do they want to see the whole world destabilized by a famine?

This is ridiculous.

warner_of_doomon The Price of Wheat

We could simply not sanction agriculture-related exports. That would be moral, IMO.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

NO! I hate looking in the mirror!

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Stop buying the narrative that the media is concocting.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Oh, my. Please go explain that to the US public/media. They'll laugh you out of the room.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/congress-has-remo...

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/congress-has-remo...

Zelenskyy is corrupt as they get. Don't buy the SM propaganda.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

There's a geostrategic logic behind where Russia wants their borders positioned.

Your statement applies more to other countries in Europe, IMO.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Bingo. There are audio tapes that prove this as well.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

2014

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

So, unless Cuba was actually going to use those nuclear missiles and unless Turkey was actually going to use those nuclear missiles, the US and the USSR were both wrong in their actions?

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Have you looked into what started this crisis in 2014?

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Not to mention that Stalin was a Georgian, not a Russian.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

> turned from dovish "can't we all just get along" types into rabid "Russia Delenda Est" types

Manufactured consent.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Even the "pro-Ukrainian" population in Ukraine has sought neutrality in the US-Russian conflict but American regime-control and regime-change operations ensured that whoever came to power would have to kowtow to American demands. This is a proxy-war. Plain and simple.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

No. Not unequivocally.

Do you know about what Victoria Nuland (leaked intercepted tapes), Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsay Graham, Hunter Biden, CIA John Brennan, etc. did in Ukraine?

Zelenskyy ran on peace with Russia, but his puppet masters in Washington would never have allowed that.

So, by late-2021, do you know that Zelenskyy had a sub-28% approval rating from his own population because he threatened to acquire nuclear weapons, threatened to join NATO, join the EU (comes with military connections also, BTW), take back Crimea and the entirety of the Donbas, etc.? His population mostly wanted Austria-style neutrality but he was being strung along by the US because we wanted to turn it into a battering ram against Russia.

So, Russia acted pre-emptively. Heck, by our logic, this war is more justified than the Invasion of Iraq in 2003.

You have to look at the entire political situation in Ukraine, starting at least since 2003-4. And, especially 2014 and the US-backed putsch that took place that year.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

> about control of the oil and gas coming from Russia.

No one focuses on this, but that's what WW1 and WW2 were always about. The eastern theatre was the most active one and it still is.

The EU should just increase its defensive capabilities and call it a day.

Make Poland and the Baltics the new red-line/frontier.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

> one side started and continues the war

Not true. You have to look at the entire political situation in Ukraine, starting at least since 2003-4. And, especially 2014 and the US-backed putsch that took place that year.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Once Russia has Ukraine, they will have met most of their core geostrategic security objectives. If they go any farther, then it will be WW3 as it should be.

warner_of_doomon Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

Not to mention the fact that these sanctions are going to make poor people starve. Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine make up a huge chunk of world grain, fertilizer, oil, and gas exports.

In the Grand Chessboard, former NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski openly talks about oil and gas pipelines and diverting them away from Russia. That's what this war is really about.